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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)

Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Graduate Record Exam (GRE) 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 PreK through 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

Major goals of revisionMajor 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

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