Assessment of Exceptionalities Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note Introduction
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ASSESSMENT OF EXCEPTIONALITIES ASSESSMENT OF EXCEPTIONALITIES 1 1 ASSESSMENT OF EXCEPTIONALITIES Assessment of Exceptionalities Battery Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note Introduction Assessment of students who are pursuing their educational career at an educational institution refers to an empirical process involving the collection of the data and reports with regard to the performance of the students and thereby determining whether the student is either progressing or deteriorating (Suskie 2018). Assessment also enables
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ASSESSMENT OF EXCEPTIONALITIES1 Introduction Assessment of students who are pursuing their educational career at an educational institution refers to an empirical process involving the collection of the data and reports with regard to the performance of the students and thereby determining whether the student is either progressing or deteriorating (Suskie 2018). In simple words, assessment refers to the task of arriving at conclusions about the performance of a student which shall be quantifiable and measureable. The basic reasons behind conducting an assessment are aimed at determining the level of progress of a student. Assessment enables the school authorities, the teachers, the parents, to get an idea of the strength and weaknesses of the students, alongside the interest areas which fascinate the student (Attali & Arieli-Attali 2015). Assessment also enables the school authorities, the teachers, the parents of the student to take adequate steps to help the student strengthen and equip the student with the necessary skills and guidance for the sake of performance enhancement (Mislevy et al. 2017). With regard to performance, the reading, writing, linguistic, comprehension, grammar, physical fitness and mathematical skills of the students are taken up for consideration, on a general basis. These have been agreed upon as the standard benchmarks for assessing the overall. Assessment is however not an adequate method to determine the capability of the students, especially when it seeks only to judge how much right or wrong the student is (Bruhn et al. 2016). It is not an astonishing factor that some students do not fit into the mainstream system of education hence their assessment cannot be ideally done with the generic system.
ASSESSMENT OF EXCEPTIONALITIES2 Tools of Assessment In this particular section some standard methods employed in the assessment of students shall be discussed. The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT) is quite similar to the Intelligence Quotient Test. The test has been designed to be applicable for both children and adults, and can be used to assess the intelligence of people falling between the age bracket of four to eighty five. The test is applied on school students to determine their respective strengths and weakness. It can be administered individually for assessing the verbal, written and mathematical skills of school students. Apart from that, the method is also used in private clinics and residential treatment facilities to assess the development of the patients (Klingner, Vaughn & Boardman 2015). Kaufman Assessment Battery is used to diagnose the psychological state of the children to determine the cognitive development. This particular tool of assessment uses both psychological and statistical readings in order to determine the results which account for its scientificality, and thereby contributes to its accuracy. The functional aspect of this particular method is same as that of the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test method, which is for assessing the verbal, written and mathematical skills of school students (Kaufman 2018). The Gray Oral Reading Tests (GORT) is one of the most widely used assessment tools used in the United States of America for determining the verbal fluency and the comprehension skills of the students. This particular model of assessment is made up of a series of tests, sixteen of which are concerned about testing the reading skills, and five are concerned about comprehension skill testing (Beck et al. 2015).
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