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Cummings, Kelli D.; Smolkowski, Keith – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2015
This paper aims to translate for practitioners the principles and methods for evaluating screening measures in education, including benchmark goals and cut points, from our technical manuscript "Evaluation of Diagnostic Systems: The Selection of Students at Risk of Academic Difficulties" (this issue). We offer a brief description of…
Descriptors: Identification, At Risk Students, Learning Disabilities, Student Characteristics
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Snowling, Margaret J. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
This paper reviews current proposals concerning the definition of dyslexia and contrasts it with reading comprehension impairment. We then discuss methods for early identification and review evidence that teacher assessments and ratings may be valid screening tools. Finally, we argue that interventions should be theoretically motivated and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Identification, Definitions, Reading Comprehension
Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Menzies, Holly Mariah; Oakes, Wendy Peia; Kalberg, Jemma Robertson – Guilford Publications, 2012
Straightforward, practical, and user friendly, this unique guide addresses an essential component of decision making in schools. The authors show how systematic screenings of behavior--used in conjunction with academic data--can enhance teachers' ability to teach and support all students within a response-to-intervention framework. Chapters review…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Guides, Response to Intervention, Measures (Individuals)
Birman, Dina; Chan, Wing Yi – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2008
This paper provides an overview of screening, identification, and assessment tools and processes that can be used by practitioners and researchers who care for immigrant and refugee youth. The authors focus particularly on those tools useful in school-based settings. First, the authors review mental health needs of immigrant and refugee youth and…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Screening Tests, Identification, Mental Health Programs
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Caselman, Tonia D.; Self, Patricia A. – Children & Schools, 2008
Early identification of social-emotional behavioral problems in infants and preschoolers is critical. Nine parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments measuring preschool social-emotional behavioral problems and strengths are reviewed. Advantages to the use of parent-report and caregiver/teacher-report instruments are that they are easy…
Descriptors: Identification, Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Child Caregivers
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Lynch, Joan – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1979
The report describes a Prescreening Checklist which has been used to supplement speech, hearing, and language screening tests of preschool children. The Checklist is designed to gain information from the preschool teacher about the child's linguistic functioning in the classroom. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Check Lists, Identification, Language Tests
Biro, Patricia J.; And Others – 1986
The study compared the effectiveness of the Washington State High Priority Infant Tracking Project in maintaining high risk infants in continuing health care, determining health and developmental outcomes, and surveying the use of community resources with other state tracking projects. The project identifies infants during the first 30 days of…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Health Services, High Risk Persons
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Bender, William N.; Shubert, Terresa H.; McLaughlin, Phillip J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2001
Discussion of school violence compares possible causes of the school shootings in Colorado and Georgia with a prior analysis of possible causes of school shootings. Characteristics of these violent perpetrators are discussed as a possible guide to help identify these seemingly "invisible kids." Identification options include warning…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, High Risk Students
Pinellas County School Board, Clearwater, FL. – 1985
Intended for use by education, health, and child care specialists, the manual describes the development of an interdisciplinary community-based screening program for infants and toddlers. Part I examines four basic planning considerations: needs assessment, personnel, instrumentation, and parents' needs. Part II focuses on aspects of program…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disabilities, Identification
Wick, John W. – School Administrator, 1986
Recommends that standardized achievement tests for first to ninth graders be limited to three uses: home reports, monitoring of longitudinal performance trends in the basic skill areas, and annual monitoring for unusually low score comparisons. Recommendations deliberately exclude early childhood and high school testing and testing for individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Developmental Stages, Diagnostic Tests
Academic Therapy, 1979
The interview with G. N. Getman, a developmental optometrist specializing in learning problems and disabilities, focuses on vision's impact on learning, the role of the vision specialist in the remediation of learning problems and disabilities, early screening programs, and visual training programs. (DLS)
Descriptors: Eyes, Identification, Interviews, Learning Disabilities
Halseth, Susan L. – 1982
This guide, for classroom teachers and other school personnel in regular contact with students, describes a screening process for emotional disturbance based on information gathered through review of the literature, laws, and current screening practices. In order of presentation, this paper addresses: (1) definitions of screening, including early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Classroom Techniques, Educational Diagnosis
Hwalek, Melanie A.; Sengstock, Mary C. – 1985
Recently more attention has been focused on elder abuse, with laws enacted requiring reporting of this crime. Since service providers often do not recognize elder abuse, a validated screening tool for elder abuse is needed. A screening tool called the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Protocol has been developed and is currently being…
Descriptors: Elder Abuse, Financial Problems, High Risk Persons, Identification
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Silk, Sue – 1994
This guide for further education teachers focuses on providing basic skills support. Chapter 1 defines basic skills support, outlines some factors that have influenced this development, and sets basic skills support into context within a rapidly changing further education sector. Chapter 2 looks at basic skills screening and explores some issues…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Identification
Kochanek, Thomas T.; Friedman, Donna Haig – 1988
The monograph presents essential components of a decision making sequence used to incorporate formalized family assessment and service planning procedures into two existing early intervention programs in Massachusetts. The 1-year effort used a consultant to: (1) redefine screening and assessment processes to include both child and family centered…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Evaluation Methods
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