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The BRIGANCE ® Screens-II. City/State Date. Why Screen Children?. To identify any child who should be referred for a more comprehensive evaluation to determine the existence of a giftedness or disability and the need for special placement.
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The BRIGANCE® Screens-II City/State Date
Why Screen Children? • To identify any child who should be referred for a more comprehensive evaluation to determine the existence of a giftedness or disability and the need for special placement. • To help determine the most appropriate initial placement or grouping of children. • To assist the teacher in planning amore appropriate program for the child. • To comply with mandated screening requirements. www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Developmental Screening • Screening is a brief…procedure designed to quickly evaluate a large number of children to determine who should be referred for further assessment. • Screening is not an end in itself. Screening instruments are “early alert systems” that can help to focus assessment and observation. • Eligibility, intervention, and delayed entry into kindergarten decisions should not be made solely from screening results. www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Highlights of the BRIGANCE® Screens-II • Quick Sampling of Skills in Key Areas (10-15 min) • Wide Range of Scores-raw scores, age equivalents, percentiles, quotients • Reliable, Accurate, Valid • Easy to interpret (staff and parents) • No special training needed-simplifiedprocedures enhance reliability • Social-Emotional/Self Help Scales • Additional resources include teacher and parent forms • Full color pictures www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Highlights of the BRIGANCE® Screens-II • Sensitivity: percentage of children with true problems correctly identified by a screening instrument. At least 70% of children with true problems should score below cutoffs on the BRIGANCE® Screens-II. • Specificity: percentage of children without true difficulties correctly identified by passing, normal, or negative findings. Close to 80% of children without problems should score above cutoffs. www.CurriculumAssociates.com
The BRIGANCE® Screens-II • Infant and Toddler Screen-II • Birth to 23 months • Early Preschool Screen-II • 2-year-old and 2 1/2-year-old • Preschool Screen-II • 3-year-old and 4-year-old • K&1 Screen-II • Kindergarten and First Grade www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Gross-Motor Fine-Motor Self-Help Social-Emotional Receptive and Expressive Language Visual /Graphomotor Articulation/Verbal Fluency/Syntax Quantitative Concepts Personal Information Prereading/Reading Skill Areas of the Screens-II www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Computing Chronological Age • First date is date of screening • Second date is child’s birth date • Write the dates year-month-day • Start subtraction with days • If there are not enough days borrow a month (always 30 days) • If there are not enough months borrow a year (always 12 months) • If the number of days is 15 or higher, increase month by 1 www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Computing Chronological Age 2008 10 23 2004 8 10 2008 10 23 2005 9 30 2008 10 23 2005 12 27 www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Correcting for Prematurity • For children being screened with the Infant or Toddler Screen-II who were 4 or more weeks premature. 2008 10 23 2007 12 30 1 14 www.CurriculumAssociates.com
The Data Sheets www.CurriculumAssociates.com
The Data Sheets www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Application Exercise • Find a partner. • Decide who will be the screener and who will be the student. • Find the appropriate Data Sheet. • Compute the chronological age. • Administer the screen in 15 minutes. • Score the Data Sheet. • We will discuss the meaning of scores later. www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Cutoff Scores • Find the child’s chronological age. • Look first at the cutoff for possible disabilities or delays. • If the child scored well above those cutoffs, look to the cutoffs for giftedness. • Remember that scores below cutoffs do not necessarily mean there are disabilities. You may want to begin instruction and re-screen. www.CurriculumAssociates.com
The Data Sheets www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Cutoff Scores • Find the child’s chronological age. • Look first at the cutoff for possible disabilities or delays. • If the child scored well above those cutoffs, look to the cutoffs for giftedness. • Remember that scores below cutoffs do not necessarily mean there are disabilities. You may want to begin instruction and re-screen. Find child’s age Compare child’s score to cutoff www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Social-Emotional/Self-Help Scales • Separate section in the Early Preschool, Preschool, and K&1 Screens • Incorporated into assessments in the Infant & Toddler Screen • Parent component provides home-school connect • Cutoffs indicate Above Average, Average, or Below Average performance www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Additional Resources in the Screens-II • Screening Observations Form • Parent and Teacher Rating Forms • Parent-child Interaction Form (Infant & Toddler Screen) • Reading Readiness Scale (K&1 Screen) • Supplemental assessments • Growth Indicator Chart • Coordination chart for IED-II www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Spanish Direction Booklets • Spanish directions and student responses for assessments and supplemental assessments • Spanish Data Sheets • Spanish translations for all forms, including Social-Emotional/Self-Help Scales • Data Sheets and forms may be reproduced www.CurriculumAssociates.com
The BRIGANCE® IED-II serves as… • An assessment instrument to… • Determine present levels of performance • Identify strengths and weaknesses • Identify instructional objectives • An instructional guide • A tracking system that is specific, ongoing, and easily interpreted • A tool for developing and communicating ISFPs and IEPs www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Features of the BRIGANCE® IED-II • Developmental ages birth through 7 years • Comprehensive--ensures applicability for children with a wide range of skills and abilities • Comprehensive skill sequences--allow progress to be shown in smaller increments • Criterion-referenced testing offers flexibility • Norm-referenced testing provides data www.CurriculumAssociates.com
