EDUC 7579 Educational Assessment of Learning Problems
Open to students in the Teacher of Students with Moderate Special Needs Program, Counseling Psychology, and Reading Specialist Programs. Not open to Special Students.. This course focuses on formal and informal approaches to the nondiscriminatory assessment of students with a wide range of cognitive and academic difficulties. The focus is on identifying students with mild/moderate disabilities. It is designed to prepare specialists for the process of documenting special needs, identifying current levels of performance, addressing critical issues, and designing approaches to monitoring progress.
Course overview
- Department
- Teacher Education and Curriculum and Instruction
- School
- Lynch
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Every Fall
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.82 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.86 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 5
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Richard Cass | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | — | 23 of 25 |
| Fall 2024 | Richard Cass | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 13 of 18 |
| Fall 2023 | Richard Cass | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 of 18 |
| Fall 2022 | Richard Cass | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4–6 hrs/week | 12 of 15 |
| Fall 2021 | Richard Cass | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4–6 hrs/week | 18 of 21 |