Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDSP 2850 - Data-Based Decision Making in Classroom Contexts


This course integrates theory and clinical experiences by focusing on assessing and analyzing problems related to classroom learning environments; identifying and planning program enhancements and interventions using data-based decisions and progress monitoring; and implementing and evaluating the plan in clinical settings. The course explores issues and methods for assessing the academic, social/emotional/behavioral, and life skills of students receiving services and supports under IDEA. Students learn to interpret formal and informal learning environments and ecological assessments, create and apply accommodations and modifications of various assessments, and develop alternative and community-based assessments to support student learning and success.

Requisites: Admission to Advanced Standing
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to conduct family/ecological assessments.
  • Students will be able to administer informal assessments and use benchmark and progress monitoring assessment data in a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) model.
  • Students will be able to apply problem-solving approaches for addressing student needs that use a team approach.
  • Students will be able to use assessment data for the purpose of instructional planning to determine future instructional practices, directions, and adaptations.
  • Students will be able to select or develop, administer, and interpret the results of formative, value-added, authentic, portfolio, curriculum-based, and summative assessments.


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