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Mariann Lemke; Dan Murphy; Aaron Soo Ping Chow; Angela Acuña – WestEd, 2024
Beginning with the 2020/21 school year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) began an ongoing effort to collect and analyze literacy screening assessment data from schools and districts participating in certain state grants to inform improvement efforts. Grantee schools and districts that provide literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Literacy, Screening Tests
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Kathleen Lynne Lane; Mark Matthew Buckman; Wendy Peia Oakes; Kandace Fleming; Nathan Allen Lane; Katie Scarlett Lane Pelton; Rebecca Esther Swinburne Romine; Rebecca Sherod; Grant Edmund Allen – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2025
There is an urgent need to aid in what will be an ongoing educational recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. One avenue for supporting students with and at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (e.g., internalizing and externalizing behaviors) is implementation of tiered systems, which emphasize evidence-based practices to prevent…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, COVID-19
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Irene Piryatinskya; Jayna Ewaldb – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid shift to online learning, revealing significant challenges for elementary students' foundational academic and emotional development. This study explores the impact of remote learning on students with pre-existing--yet unidentified--attention and mood-related challenges, and aims to shed light on the academic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Norwich, Brahm; Ylonen, Annamari; Gwernan-Jones, Ruth – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The concept of moderate learning difficulties (MLD) is not clearly understood in its definition and in its general use. Nevertheless, as a distinct area of special educational needs (SEN) this category has constituted about a quarter of all of those pupils identified as having SEN in England. This paper reports the analysis of findings from an…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Severity (of Disability), Definitions, Disability Identification
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Veurink, N.; Sorby, S. A. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2012
Spatial skills have been shown to be important to success in an engineering curriculum, and some question if poor spatial skills prevent students from entering STEM fields or if students with weak spatial skills avoid engineering disciplines believed to highly spatially-oriented. Veurink and Hamlin (2011) found that freshmen students entering…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Majors (Students), Engineering Education, College Freshmen
Anderson, Stephen A. – Online Submission, 2010
This paper summarizes an action research project to develop a math screening instrument that would be effective (valid and reliable) and efficient (time for administration). An instrument was developed after review of the mathematics assessment and mathematics disabilities literature. The instrument was administered to kindergarten, first, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Achievement Tests, Kindergarten, Grade 2
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Ritterman, Stuart I.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1982
The performance of 91 first grade students was compared using three screening tests of articulation: the Templin-Darley Screening Test of Articulation, the Screening Deep Test of Articulation, and the Predictive Screening Test of Articulation. There was poor correlation between tests in terms of the particular individuals failed. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Failure
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Rogers, Sally J. – Journal of School Psychology, 1982
Administered the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT) to 92 preschool children. Administered the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to a sample of the group, and the results were compared to the results from the SIT. Results indicated the SIT overestimated the performance of average preschool children. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Intelligence Tests, Preschool Children, Scores
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Katz, Lynda; Goldstein, Gerald – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1993
Compared intellectual (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale for Adults-Revised) and neuropsychological (Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery) assessment as valid methods of identifying learning disabilities in adults. Findings from 155 subjects revealed that both instruments were able to distinguish adults with and without learning disabilities.…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Testing, Intelligence Tests, Learning Disabilities
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Teal, Madalyn Brand; Wiebe, Michael J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1986
The study investigated the effectiveness of three instruments in discriminating 20 autistic from 20 trainable mentally retarded children (ages 3-12): Autism Screening Instrument for Educational Planning (ASIEP), Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), and Diagnostic Checklist for Behavior Disordered Children. The CARS and ASIEP provided for a…
Descriptors: Autism, Comparative Testing, Disability Identification, Moderate Mental Retardation
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Vance, Booney; Bing, Sally – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Explored the relationship between a short form of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and McCarthy Screening Test (MST) for a sample of northeastern Ohio children (N=42). Results showed that all the subtests except for Leg Coordination scores correlated significantly with the WISC-R Verbal scale. (LLL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Elementary School Students
Edinger, Jack D.; Vosk, Barbara N. – 1983
Of the many short forms of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) that have been developed, the MMPI-168 is among the most promising. To determine whether clinical judgments based on the MMPI-168 are comparable to judgments based on the standard MMPI, 30 clinical psychologists participated in a randomized block, repeated treatment…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Interrater Reliability, Personality Measures
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Vance, Booney; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1983
Investigated the relationship between the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) and the McCarthy Screening Test (MST) with a sample of 39 children whose mean age was 62.3 months. All of the subtests of the MST, excluding Numerical Memory and Leg Coordination, correlated positively and significantly with the PPVT-R. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
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Prewett, Peter N. – Psychology in the Schools, 1992
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were administered in counterbalanced order to 35 referred students. Although K-BIT intelligence quotient (IQ) Composite correlated significantly with WISC-R Full Scale IQ scores, mean scores differed significantly. Results provide moderate support…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Children, Comparative Testing
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Blaxley, Lynn; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1983
The performance of 90 children between the ages of four and six years on two language screening tests was compared with their performance on Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) to determine the accuracy of these screening tests in identifying language impairments. The Bankson Language Screening Test was generally accurate in the identification of…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification, Language Acquisition
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