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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
The Brief Academic Competence Evaluation Screening System (BACESS) is a broadband universal screening instrument with three increasingly stringent phases for the identification of children at risk for academic and related behavior difficulties. The development of the BACESS involved two samples of students: K-5 students (n = 827) from the…
Descriptors: Test Results, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
Gersten, Russell; Clarke, Benjamin S.; Jordan, Nancy C. – Center on Instruction, 2007
A major advance in the field of reading over the past 15 years has been the development and validation of screening measures that can detect with reasonable accuracy those kindergartners and first graders likely to experience difficulty in learning to read. Increasingly, these students now receive additional instructional support during the…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Cognitive Psychology, Mathematics Instruction, Student Evaluation
Wang, Jia; Niemi, David; Wang, Haiwen – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
The main goal of this report is to present evidence on the predictive validity of an English language arts (ELA) performance assessment (PA) administered in Grades 2-9 in a large urban school district. To account for the hierarchical structure of the data (students are nested within schools), we employed hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests