Covers pre-school assessment of young children, dealing with formal and informal assessment methods, the assessment of special populations including the gifted, the mentally retarded and the culturally different. It also offers five instrument-specific sections on cognitive testing.
Author(s): Bruce A. Bracken
Edition: 3
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 378
CONTENTS......Page 4
PREFACE......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 7
CHAPTER 1 HISTORY OF PRESCHOOL ASSESSMENT......Page 10
CHAPTER 2 ISSUES IN PRESCHOOL ASSESSMENT......Page 28
CHAPTER 3 MAXIMIZING CONSTRUCT RELEVANT ASSESSMENT: THE OPTIMAL PRESCHOOL TESTING SITUATION......Page 42
CHAPTER 4 CLINICAL OBSERVATION OF PRESCHOOL ASSESSMENT BEHAVIOR......Page 54
CHAPTER 5 THE ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH THE WECHSLER PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE—REVISED......Page 66
CHAPTER 6 THE ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH THE STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE: FOURTH EDITION......Page 85
CHAPTER 7 THE ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH THE KAUFMAN ASSESSMENT BATTERY FOR CHILDREN......Page 112
CHAPTER 8 ASSESSMENT OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR......Page 133
CHAPTER 9 ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, AND SPEECH: QUESTIONS OF "WHAT TO DO NEXT?"......Page 154
CHAPTER 10 ASSESSMENT OF BASIC RELATIONAL CONCEPTS......Page 195
CHAPTER 11 ASSESSMENT OF GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT......Page 213
CHAPTER 12 ASSESSMENT OF VISUAL FUNCTIONING......Page 243
CHAPTER 13 ASSESSMENT OF AUDITORY FUNCTIONING......Page 258
CHAPTER 14 ASSESSING MULTICULTURAL PRESCHOOL CHILDREN......Page 291
CHAPTER 15 ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES......Page 307
CHAPTER 16 PRESCHOOL CREATIVITY......Page 358
CHAPTER 17 ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN......Page 373
CHAPTER 18 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESCHOOL CHILD......Page 392
CHAPTER 19 EARLY CHILDHOOD SCREENING FOR DEVELOPMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS......Page 408
CHAPTER 20 PLAY-BASED APPROACHES TO PRESCHOOL ASSESSMENT......Page 421
CHAPTER 21 A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTERPRETING PRESCHOOL INTELLIGENCE TESTS......Page 437
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