Teachers are encouraged to use the results of assessments to plan specific educational programs. Information is provided about the nature of diagnostic testing, with both content and process error analysis discussed. The nature of prescriptive teaching is detailed to show how to devise remediate activities after student problems are analyzed. (MP)

Assessment of school aged youngsters is an omnipresent decision making activity; intervention planning is an important component of this decision making. A child's strengths and weaknesses may be useful indicators on which to plan instructional programs; unfortunately, they often are not identified as a result of general assessment practices.…

A review of the history and current status of screening and differential diagnosis in the field of learning disabilities concludes that continued efforts at refinements in diagnosis/classification are unproductive. The authors offer a variety of concrete recommendations from a data-based perspective to make appropriate educational experiences…