A Study on Application of Advanced Social Work Assessment Scales and Tools in Special Schools

Assessment is a very crucial term in special education process. In the modern era everything seeking scientific and systematic approach, Special education also needs updated tools because it provides valuable insights into a student's cognitive abilities. Effective special education relies on assessment, which is the foundation of modern education because it gives us key to understand what a child needs. Assessment and evaluation in special education is a process that involves collecting information about a student for the purpose of making decisions. Assessment, also known as evaluation, can be seen as a problem-solving process that involves many ways of collecting information about the student (Swanson & Watson, 1989) In special education, there are many professional advanced scales and tools from different platforms that help to support the social workers to determine the student learning, and these tools make the evaluation more accurate. The whole teaching methodology is based on the assessment. Thus efficient assessment can help for betterment of the student in more effective way. Disability present in a student if diagnosed properly it is nearly half the problem solved for the mentor to proceed with  future academic progression.