Assessing Students with Special Needs

About John Venn

John Venn is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of North Florida. John's experience includes serving as a classroom teacher an educational diagnostician a university professor a researcher a grant writer and an administrator. His teaching research and service interests focus on how to assess and evaluate students with special needs as well as on curriculum-based assessment and measurement. John's interests extend to technology and online learning; he maintains a website dedicated to assisting teachers with student assessment and he has taught online courses in assessment. John is committed to finding practical solutions to the most difficult problems and issues in testing and measurement. For this reason he spends considerable time in schools where he learns first hand how teachers are conducting assessment. John takes what he learns in the schools back to the university where he incorporates his experiences into his classes and scholarship. To learn more about John's work in assessment visit his website at www.johnvenn.com.