Linking Developmental Profiles across Age Groups

1. Desired Results Developmental Profile 1 Linking Developmental Profiles across Age Groups Tzur M. Karelitz University of California, Berkeley Deborah (Montgomery) Parrish American Institute for Research Hiro Yamada University of California, Berkeley In this session we have introduced the DRDP system, it�s indicators, measures and developmental levels and relation to standards. In this talk we are going to elaborate on one aspect of the DRDP instrument development process. The DRDP assessment system goal is to track a wide range of developmental profiles over a span of 13 years. For this goal, three instruments were designed to be administered in three different types of programs. 35 items measure Infants and Toddlers development in day-care type centers, 39 measures in PS and 31 measures of children and youth in SA). Because each item measure an older population, one could expect the levels in IT to be lower than PS, and the levels of PS lower than SA. However, the instruments were generally designed so that levels on the intersection points between instruments will overlap conceptually, creating a link between all three parts of the DRDP assessment system.In this session we have introduced the DRDP system, it�s indicators, measures and developmental levels and relation to standards. In this talk we are going to elaborate on one aspect of the DRDP instrument development process. The DRDP assessment system goal is to track a wide range of developmental profiles over a span of 13 years. For this goal, three instruments were designed to be administered in three different types of programs. 35 items measure Infants and Toddlers development in day-care type centers, 39 measures in PS and 31 measures of children and youth in SA). Because each item measure an older population, one could expect the levels in IT to be lower than PS, and the levels of PS lower than SA. However, the instruments were generally designed so that levels on the intersection points between instruments will overlap conceptually, creating a link between all three parts of the DRDP assessment system.

2. Desired Results Developmental Profile 2 What is �linking�? Assessment instruments that measure similar constructs can be linked to one another. A link means that developmental levels in one instrument are conceptually and empirically similar to levels in the other instrument.

3. Desired Results Developmental Profile 3 Example of developmental assessment scales