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Life Skills Assessment

Life Skills Assessment. SpEd 556. Norm-Referenced Tests. Norm-Referenced Tests Compare an individual’s performance to the performance of his or her peers Emphasis is on the relative standing of individuals rather than on absolute mastery of content

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Life Skills Assessment

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  1. Life Skills Assessment SpEd 556

  2. Norm-Referenced Tests • Norm-Referenced Tests • Compare an individual’s performance to the performance of his or her peers • Emphasis is on the relative standing of individuals rather than on absolute mastery of content • Designed to separate the performances of individuals so that there is a distribution of scores

  3. Norm-Referenced Tests • Useful for eligibility decisions • Students with DCD • Measures of intellectual functioning • Measures of adaptive behavior

  4. Criterion-Referenced Tests • Rather than indicating a person’s relative standing in skill development--measure a person’s development of particular skills in term of absolute levels of mastery • Recommended for the purpose of assisting in planning appropriate programs for children • Identifies the specific skills that the student does or does not have (mastery)

  5. Criterion-Referenced Tests • Information obtained from criterion-referenced tests facilitate the writing of objectives • Test items sample sequential skills--identifying where to begin instruction and to understand the instructional sequence

  6. Brigance Assessments • Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills • Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Essential Skills • Brigance Diagnostic Life Skills Inventory • Brigance Diagnostic Employability Skills Inventory

  7. Assessment of 203 skill sequences in: Readiness Speech Listening Reading Spelling Writing Research and study skills Graphs & Maps Math Primarily used to: Assess elementary and middle school students Prekindergarten to grade nine Assess basic academic skills Measurement is: Criterion-referenced Focus on the content rather than comparison to others Brigance Diagnostic Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills

  8. Grade placement Numbers Number facts Computation Fractions Decimals Percents Time Money Measurement Brigance Basic SkillsMath Skills

  9. Inventory may be used as: Assessment Instrument Identify areas of strength and weakness To identify basic skills within areas Identify instructional objectives Instructional guide Objectives stated in functional and measurable terms Record-keeping and Tracking System The instrument: Gives continuity to your program of basic skills Simplifies and combines the processes of assessing, diagnosing, record-keeping, and instructional planning Brigance Basic Skills

  10. Administration Too extensive to be administered in its entirety Decide what assessment will provide the most valuable data within reasonable time Initiate assessment at the skill level where student can be successful (refer to grade levels in manual) Student Record Book Color coding Ongoing, graphic, specific, and easily interpreted record (see overheads) Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills

  11. Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Essential Skills

  12. Brigance Inventory of Essential Skills • Two parts-- • Section A through T--basic academic skills • Sections U through Z--applied skills • Applied Skills • Health & Safety • Vocational • Money & Finance • Travel & Transportation • Food & Clothing • Oral Communication & Telephone Skills

  13. Brigance Inventory of Essential Skills • Includes: • 186 skill sequences • 10 rating scales • Easy to follow format • Has two forms (A&B) • Easily adapted to accommodate different assessment situations

  14. Brigance Diagnostic Life Skills Inventory Albert H. Brigance Curriculum Associates, Inc.

  15. Brigance Life Skills Inventory • Areas assessed: • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing • Comprehending • Computing • Within context of everyday life situations

  16. Brigance Life Skills Inventory • Subscales • Speaking & listening skills • Functional Writing Skills • Words on common signs and warning labels • Telephone Skills • Money and finance • Food • Clothing • Health • Travel & transportation

  17. Brigance Employability Skills Inventory Albert H. Brigance Curriculum Associates, Inc.

  18. Brigance Employability Skills Inventory • Subscales • Reading grade placement • Career Awareness and Self Understanding • Job seeking skills & knowledge • Rating scales • Self concept, attitudes, responsibility, self-discipline, motor coordination, thinking skills, job-interview • Reading skills (in relation to employment) • Speaking & listening skills • Preemployment writing • Math skills & concepts

  19. Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills

  20. Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS) • Criterion-referenced, individually administered measure (infants to mature adults) • Tool for program planning • Determine instructional needs • Develop individualized training objectives • Monitor progress of learners • Can be used: • each time the learner’s long-term goals are evaluated • each time learner experiences major change in environment • each time there is need to select new or different skill areas for evaluation

  21. Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS) • 800 specific adaptive behaviors • Four domains • Personal living skills • Home living skills • Community living skills • Employment skills • Broad domains subdivided into 24 specific skills modules • Items arranged in order of progressive difficulty

  22. Life Centered Career Education Batteries (LCCE) Don Brolin Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)

  23. LCCE KnowledgeBattery

  24. LCCE Knowledge Battery • Standardized, Criterion-Referenced Assessment • Developed to be used with 7-12 grade students • 200 multiple choice questions that cover 20 of the 22 competencies • Sample of basic knowledge

  25. LCCE Performance Battery • Nonstandardized, criterion-referenced instrument • Assesses 21 of the competencies • Items are performance based

  26. COACH

  27. Communication Socialization Personal management Leisure and Recreation Selected Academics Home School Community Vocational Selecting Curriculum Areas

  28. Additional Learning Outcomes • Step 2 designed to identify learning outcomes beyond the priorities selected during the Family Interview (top 8 priorities) • Additional learning outcomes may come from: • Coach items that were not previously prioritized • General education

  29. General Supports • Step 3 is designed to determine and document general supports that are necessary for the student to access and participate in his or her individualized education program • They clarify what other needs to do to or for the student

  30. Scheduling Matrix • The purpose of this step is to explore scheduling possibilities by comparing the student’s educational program components to general class activities.

  31. Assessment Overview • Brigance Scales • Assess basic skills, life skills, employability skills (direct assessment with some indirect with rating scales) • Checklist of Adaptive Behavior (CALS) • Criterion-referenced adaptive behavior assessment (indirect assessment) • LCCE Batteries • Knowledge Battery-direct assessment of students’ knowledge of like skill issues • Performance Battery-direct assessment of students’ performance relative to life skills (with some rating scales) • COACH • Assessment process that identifies & prioritizes student needs, additional learning outcomes, and general supports to include addressing how needs can be addressed in the general education classroom

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