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School-Based Tests. Readiness Tests Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) Achievement Tests (accomplishments) Diagnostics. Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning). Graduate Record Exam Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Otis-Lennon School Ability Test. Otis-Lennon School Ability Test.
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School-Based Tests • Readiness Tests • Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) • Achievement Tests (accomplishments) • Diagnostics
Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) • Graduate Record Exam • Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) • Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test • Arthur Otis and Roger Lennon • 1st edition 1979 (earlier versions 30s) • 8th edition (2009) • Group administered • Pre-K through grade 12 • 2007 – adopted by NY City Dept of Ed
OLSAT 8 • Used for decisions about school placement • Abstract thinking and reasoning ability • 21 subtests • 5 areas • Verbal and non verbal scores • Overall School Ability Index (SAI) • OLSAT categories
Achievement Tests (accomplishments) • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – second edition (WIAT-II) • Iowa Test of Basic Skills • Stanford Achievement Tests • Regents Tests • Self-made instruments
School Readiness 1 - Readiness to learn Academic Knowledge -- Metropolitan Readiness Test 2 - Readiness for school Developmental Milestones -- Bayley III -- Gesell Development Schedules
Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6) • 1994 • Kindergarten and Grade 1 • 80-90 minutes • 4 – 7 years
MRT 6 Readiness for First Grade -- Emerging literacy concepts in an authentic context -- Developing language/literacy concepts -- Developing quantitative/mathematics concepts
MRT 6 • Level 1 – individually administered – pre K • Level 2 – group administered – middle and end of K and beginning of grade 1 • Parent-Teacher Conference Report
Level 1 – mid kindergarten • 6 sub tests -- Auditory memory -- Rhyming -- Letter recognition -- Visual matching -- School language and listening -- Quantitative language
Level II – end k. – first grade • 6 sub tests -- Beginning consonants -- Sound-letter correspondence -- Visual matching -- Finding patterns -- School language -- Listening
MRT6 + Early School Inventory • Physical development checklist • Language development checklist • Cognitive development checklist • Social-emotional development checklist • + Parent-teacher conference report
Developmental Milestones 2 - Readiness for school -- Bayley III -- Gesell Development Schedules
Developmental Tests Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, third edition (Bayley-III)
Bayley Scales • Nancy Bayley – Institute of Child Welfare – Berkeley CA • Original test 1969 • Revised 2005
Characteristics of test • 1- 42 months • Flexible administration format • 50 to 90 minutes • Theoretically eclectic • English only
Uses of Bayley-III • Identify developmentally delayed children • Chart progress on intervention program • Teach parents about development • Research tool
Scales • Cognitive • Language (receptive and expressive) • Motor (fine and gross) • Social-Emotional* • Adaptive Behavior*
Video of Bayley assessment • video link
Gesell Development Schedules • Developed by Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) at Yale • Preschool test – ages 2-6 • Gesell School Readiness Test – ages 4-9 • Individually administered
Gesell measures physical, emotional, and behavioral 4 Development Schedules (timetables) -- ability to adapt -- motor functioning -- use of language -- social interaction
Diagnostic Tests • Behavioral • Literacy • Math
Behavioral • Connors Rating Scales – Revised (CRS-R) • Screen for ADHD • Ages 3 – 17 • Parent version • Adolescent (12-17) self report
Early intervention -- Formative Assessment -- Curriculum Based Measure (CBM) -- Response to Intervention (RTI)
Literacy -- AIMSweb – assessment system (home) -- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) (home site) -- ISEL – Illinois Snapshot of Early Learning