A website created for families who want to know more about the assessment process!

ATTENTION

  The ability to focus on a given activity for extended periods of time.  Many students may be able to pay attention but not on what is most important.  They may focus on what the teacher is wearing rather than on what he or she is saying.  These students often fail to finish things they start, appear to be inattentive and easily distracted and have a short attention span.  The Council for Exceptional Children estimates that 3% to 5% of school-aged children have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).

Strategies – use novelty to capture attention, changes in voice level, use underlining or highlighting, remove as many distractions as possible, use a planner for homework assignments.

  Assessments – ‘Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale, Children’s Attention and Adjustment Survey, Conners’ Abbreviated Teacher Rating Scale.

  Links –

www.chadd.org.html

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder – everything you ever wanted to know about Attention Deficit Disorder.

www.chadd.org/other.html

 Home | Background| Pre-K | Elementary | Secondary | Post-Secondary 
This website was developed collaboratively during the summer session of  June/July 2000, as a technology project by graduate students in EEX 6222: Assessment and Dr. Marcia Greene, Associate Professor and Bill Halverson, Technology Instructor/Webmaster, Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Education.   Comments/Feedback??? Email us directly or use the Feedback option at the top of the page.  We hope you have enjoyed this website! 

Last modified: July 03, 2000