School-Based TestsSchool-Based Tests

Readiness TestsAptitude Tests (capacity for learning)

Achievement Tests (accomplishments)

Diagnostics

Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning)

Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning)

Graduate Record Exam Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

Otis-Lennon School Ability TestOtis-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 8OLSAT 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)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 ReadinessSchool Readiness1 - Readiness to learn

Academic Knowledge

-- Metropolitan Readiness Test

2 - Readiness for school

Developmental Milestones

-- Bayley III

-- Gesell Development Schedules

Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6)Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6)

1994 Kindergarten and Grade 1 80-90 minutes 4 – 7 years

MRT 6MRT 6

Readiness for First Grade

-- Emerging literacy concepts in an authentic context

-- Developing language/literacy concepts

-- Developing quantitative/mathematics concepts

MRT 6MRT 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 kindergartenLevel 1 – mid kindergarten

6 sub tests -- Auditory memory

-- Rhyming

-- Letter recognition

-- Visual matching

-- School language and listening

-- Quantitative language

Level II – end k. – first gradeLevel II – end k. – first grade

6 sub tests -- Beginning consonants

-- Sound-letter correspondence

-- Visual matching

-- Finding patterns

-- School language

-- Listening

MRT6 + Early School InventoryMRT6 + Early School Inventory

Physical development checklist Language development checklist Cognitive development checklist Social-emotional development checklist + Parent-teacher conference report

Developmental MilestonesDevelopmental Milestones

2 - Readiness for school

-- Bayley III

-- Gesell Development Schedules

Developmental TestsDevelopmental Tests

Bayley Scales of Infant

and Toddler Development,

third edition

(Bayley-III)

Bayley ScalesBayley Scales

Nancy Bayley – Institute of Child Welfare – Berkeley CA

Original test 1969 Revised 2005

Characteristics of testCharacteristics of test

1- 42 months Flexible administration format 50 to 90 minutes Theoretically eclectic English only

Uses of Bayley-IIIUses of Bayley-III

Identify developmentally delayed children Chart progress on intervention program Teach parents about development Research tool

ScalesScales

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

Video of Bayley assessmentVideo of Bayley assessment

video link

Gesell Development SchedulesGesell 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 measuresGesell measures

physical, emotional, and behavioral

4 Development Schedules (timetables)

-- ability to adapt

-- motor functioning

-- use of language

-- social interaction

Diagnostic Tests Diagnostic Tests

Behavioral Literacy Math

BehavioralBehavioral

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

Early interventionEarly intervention

-- Formative Assessment

-- Curriculum Based Measure (CBM)

-- Response to Intervention (RTI)

LiteracyLiteracy

-- AIMSweb – assessment system (home)

-- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) (home site)

-- ISEL – Illinois Snapshot of Early Learning