Support for Learning Differences in Higher Education: The Essential Practitioners’ Manual - Softcover

Price, Geraldine; Skinner, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858564115 ISBN 13: 9781858564111

Publisher: Trentham Books, 2007

Synopsis

Specialist teacher assessors work increasingly in all sectors of British education. As key personnel in higher education institutions, they are responsible for conducting essential diagnostic psychometric assessments for students. In its guidance on assessment and identification of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) in higher education, the UK government identifies procedures for good practice.

This book is a practitioner’s guide for specialist teachers working with SpLD students in higher education institutions and provides the background to the practitioner’s certificate introduced in 2006. It offers practical suggestions to aid specialist tutors who are supporting and assessing students from all academic fields. It indicates formats for assessments to help specialist tutors comply with the new regulations and helps tutors provide reasonable adjustments for students that do not compromise academic standards.

About this title

Book Description:

This book is a practitioner’s guide for teachers working with specific-learning-difficulties students in higher education institutions and provides the background to the British practitioner’s certificate. For everyone who supports and assessing students from all academic fields, it offers practical guidance, and outlines reasonable adjustments that do not compromise academic standards.

About the Author:

Geraldine Price is a member of the original DfES working party which set up the practicing certificate and also of the current committee responsible for the regulation of courses. She is Director of an MSc in SpLD at the University of Southampton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trentham Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1858564115
• ISBN 13: 9781858564111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264