Includes 16 competencies/skills found on the GACE Special Education General Curriculum test and 380 sample-test questions. This guide, aligned specifically to standards prescribed by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, covers the sub-areas of Understanding Students with Disabilities; Assessing Students and Developing Programs; Promoting Student Development and Learning; and Working in a Professional Environment…. More >>
GACE Special Education General Curriculum 081, 082
Tags: curriculum, education, GACE, General, special
Any study guide that starts with a cartoon captioned “And, while there’s no reason yet to panic . . .” seems doomed from the start. If we prepared study guides for our students that were so poorly done, every one would fail and we’d be dismissed.
I have three of these guides, purchased only because they are the only ones available for GACE. In one, the practice test questions don’t line up with the answers. There are several questions for some competencies and none for others. Another guide’s explanations for practice test questions range from “this is deliberately tricky” to “any literate person should be able to figure this out”.
I have a master’s in curriculum and have taught for more than 15 years. I consider myself literate, yet I couldn’t come up with the answers for those questions. I won’t go into how poorly written the guides are. If they were graded as papers from college students they would receive D’s at best.
The on-line resources are limited. I feel “stuck” buying a very expensive guide that is poorly written at best.
Rating: 1 / 5
While I am sure that this book includes very helpful information for those who will be taking the Special Education GACE, it is full of grammatical errors, which I found to be extremely distracting. Surely, people who write specifically for the educational system should have their material proofread! Apparently, this is too much to expect.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this item from an online dealer who never delivered the product. So, I had to purchase a second copy from a local bookstore.
The book goes through in fairly a fairly detailed way the 16 skill-content areas for the special ed. GACE. However, numerous typos, grammatical awkward sentences, and inconsistent formatting in places made the book feel like it was rushed to the printer without a proper editing. That was pretty disappointing.
Rating: 3 / 5
I studied this book for 2 months. from cover to cover. I took both the pre-test and post-test from the book and did pretty well. When I went to take the real GACE test, I was confident that I would succeed in that, too. What a joke! The real test was nothing like the book! Most of the questions were not included in any of the book’s content. And, throughout the book there were numerous typos and mistakes. The author and publisher should be ashamed for wasting people’s precious time and hard-earned money!
Rating: 1 / 5
The author of this book, a teacher herself, should hide her face in shame. And the publisher should refund cold cash to every single person who bought this insulting excuse for a study guide. I have never seen more type-o’s, misinformation, missing content (entire parapgraphs were left out) and general disorganization in any document in my life. It is amazing it got by an editor, or just possibly it was self edited. At any rate, using it to pass the GACE is not possible. Don’t waste your time, your money, or your emotion on this. It’s too costly to learn the hard way.
Rating: 1 / 5