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School-Based Tests

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

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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 • School examples

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

  3. Otis-Lennon School Ability Test • Abstract thinking and reasoning ability • Verbal and non verbal scores • Overall School Ability Index (SAI) • Used for decisions about school placement • Group administered

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

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

  6. Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6) • 1994 • Kindergarten and Grade 1 • 80-90 minutes • 4 – 7 years

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

  8. 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

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

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

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

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

  13. 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

  14. Gesell measures physical, emotional, and behavioral 4 Development Schedules (timetables) -- ability to adapt -- motor functioning -- use of language -- social interaction

  15. -- Bayley III

  16. Diagnostic Tests • Behavioral • Literacy • Math

  17. Behavioral • Connors Rating Scales – Revised (CRS-R) • Screen for ADHD • Ages 3 – 17 • Parent version • Adolescent (12-17) self report

  18. Early intervention -- Formative Assessment -- Curriculum Based Measure (CBM) -- Response to Intervention (RTI)

  19. Literacy -- AIMSweb – assessment system (home) -- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) (home site) -- ISEL – Illinois Snapshot of Early Learning

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