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    Case Study: Final Plan and Presentation Reflection

    Sean Laughlin

    University of Kansas

    SPED 898

    Dr. Brasseur-Hock

    May 25, 2020


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    Case Study: Final Plan and Presentation Reflection

    Introduction

    The Case Study to conclude SPED 741, was one of my favorite assignments

    during this entire masters program because the process of working with a young student

    and seeing her work through each assessment. Each week, I would meet with Matilda, a

    seven-year-old student who academically is quite advanced. Every time we would meet,

    the assessments that I would give to her were focused on reading comprehension. Having

    five different types of assessments was a great way to see her strengths and weaknesses

    with reading. After all of our meetings, I constructed an overview of the entire process as

    well as a breakdown of each of our meetings.

    Purpose

    The purpose of this assignment was to focus on the power of one on one

    assessment with a student. Being able to work with that student in an isolated setting

    where it is just the educator, the student and the assessment where the student has to

    perform the assessment orally. This type of assessment is often used to place students in

    the correct learning group or environment to fit their academic needs. The case study is a

    great way to learn from an actual student with actual grades and performances on an

    assessment. At the end of the Case Study, I was asked to make a recommendation for that

    student academically moving forward and that is a key part of the purpose of this

    assignment. Anyone can give a student an assessment, but it is the job of assessing the

    student’s behavior to place the student in a positive learning space for him or her moving

    forward.
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    Revisions

    On this assignment, I received a 50/50 in the grade book and the comment that

    was left by Professor Elford only highlighted how my assignment was written in a

    “familiar without being unprofessional” way. With that feedback, I did not make any

    major revisions when it came to the information in the case study. I did make numerous

    grammatical changes to give the document a better flow from beginning to end.

    What was learned

    This assignment brought better knowledge to me in something that I did get to dip

    my toe into my first year as a paraprofessional. For a handful of students, I had to do one

    on one-isolated assessments just like this. What this case study taught me that I wish I

    would have known when I first assessed my students was the impact of paying attention

    to how the student is working through the assessments. When I would give assessments

    prior to this course, I was only focused on grading the assessment as it was happening. I

    was not acknowledging the process each student uses to complete each assignment.

    Matilda was a great child to do this case study over because of her thinking out

    loud on assessments such as the fill in the blank fluency assessment as well as the

    vocabulary matching assessment. This thought process allowed me to assess her learning

    process instead of just hearing the answers. Like I previously mentioned, this style of

    assessment is used K-12, specifically in the special education department. So, the

    knowledge and experience I learned from this assignment will be used often for many

    years.

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