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School-Based Tests

School-Based Tests. Readiness Tests Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) Achievement Tests (accomplishments) Diagnostics. Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning). Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Otis-Lennon School Ability Test.

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School-Based Tests

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  1. School-Based Tests • Readiness Tests • Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) • Achievement Tests (accomplishments) • Diagnostics

  2. Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) • Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) • Graduate Record Exam (GRE) • Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Achievement Tests (accomplishments) • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – second edition (WIAT-II) • Iowa Test of Basic Skills • Stanford Achievement Tests • Regents Tests • Self-made instruments

  6. School Readiness 1 - Readiness to learn Academic Knowledge -- Metropolitan Readiness Test 2 - Readiness for school Developmental Milestones -- Bayley III -- Gesell Development Schedules

  7. Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6) • 1994 • PreK through Grade 1 • 80-90 minutes • 4 – 7 years

  8. MRT 6 Readiness for First Grade -- Emerging literacy concepts in an authentic context -- Developing language/literacy concepts -- Developing quantitative/mathematics concepts

  9. 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

  10. Level 1 – mid kindergarten • 6 sub tests -- Auditory memory -- Rhyming -- Letter recognition -- Visual matching -- School language and listening -- Quantitative language

  11. Level II – end k. – first grade • 6 sub tests -- Beginning consonants -- Sound-letter correspondence -- Visual matching -- Finding patterns -- School language -- Listening

  12. MRT6 + Early School Inventory • Physical development checklist • Language development checklist • Cognitive development checklist • Social-emotional development checklist • + Parent-teacher conference report

  13. Developmental Milestones 2 - Readiness for school -- Bayley III -- Gesell Development Schedules

  14. Developmental Tests Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, third edition (Bayley-III)

  15. Bayley Scales • Nancy Bayley – Institute of Child Welfare – Berkeley CA • Original test 1969 • Revised 2005

  16. Major goals of revision • Meet IDEA 2004 criteria • Update normative data • Extend age range • Improve content coverage • Update stimulus materials • Improve psychometric quality • Improve clinical utility of scales • Preserve basic qualities of scale

  17. Characteristics of test • 1- 42 months • Flexible administration format • 50 to 90 minutes • Theoretically eclectic • English only

  18. Uses of Bayley-III • Identify developmentally delayed children • Chart progress on intervention program • Teach parents about development • Research tool

  19. Scales • Cognitive • Language (receptive and expressive) • Motor (fine and gross) • Social-Emotional* • Adaptive Behavior*

  20. Video of Bayley assessment • video link

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