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Direct linkKlingbeil, David A.; Van Norman, Ethan R.; Nelson, Peter M.; Birr, Chris – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
Several states have changed their statewide achievement tests over the past 5 years. These changes may pose difficulties for educators tasked with identifying students in need of additional support. This study evaluated the stability of decision-making accuracy estimates across changes to the statewide achievement test. We analyzed extant data…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Achievement Tests, State Programs, Decision Making
Schennum, Ruth H.; Siegel, Judith S. – 1978
Described is Rhode Island's method of screening the preschool population for possible handicaps (Child Find). The system is seen to include casefinding (every child over 2.5 years not yet in school) using locally tailored public awareness campaigns, large scale screening (a quick survey of medical, sensory, motor, social, emotional, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Handicapped Children, Identification, Preschool Education
Download full textPeterson, Pam; Clark, Bob – 1975
Presented is the Indiana Department of Public Instruction's Childfind program to identify and locate all handicapped children ages 0 to 21 within the state. Sections are devoted to the following program aspects: Planning (including interagency involvement, preliminary market research, and manpower organization and planning); execution (including…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Identification, Public Support
Joiner, Lee Marvin; And Others – 1977
The monograph presents an analysis of screening programs for handicapped children in New York State school districts. An introductory section considers such factors as the general parameters of a screening program and characteristics of a good screening program. Major policy options for screening are seen to include decisions regarding universal…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Children
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
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. – 1970
General screening policies and procedures for identification of exceptional children in Mississippi are described including aspects of philosophy, definitions, legal provisions, regional screening teams, and the organization of special education classes. The screening processes for the specific handicaps of mental retardation, learning…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Bishop, Virginia E. – 1967
A three-part study provides supportive data to reinforce a request for revision of Pennsylvania's school vision screening standards in order to properly identify visually limited children. The school vision screening policies of 35 states are surveyed in nine tables, and the problems involved in screening practices are discussed. The reactions of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Partial Vision
White, Alan J., Ed.; Lanza, Leonard G., Comp. – 1974
The report (in working draft form) of the Connecticut Task Force on Identification of the Gifted and Talented discusses general systems and instruments of identification, identifying the academically gifted, identifying the disadvantaged gifted, and identifying special types of giftedness. Excerpts from Connecticut State Department of Eduation…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Annotated Bibliographies, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Education
Scheffelin, Margaret; Ballard, Tara – 1989
This legislative report presents the results of a pilot project conducted in eight suburban California school districts as part of an effort to develop a testing program identifying kindergartners with potential reading problems. The project was also intended to evaluate the program's effectiveness and gauge the feasibility of statewide…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Identification, Kindergarten Children, Pilot Projects
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Washington, DC. – 1975
Presented are seven papers delivered at the March, 1975 National Child Find conference sponsored by the Coordinating Office for Regional Resource Centers and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. The presentations describe identification, diagnostic and evaluation programs for handicapped children in the following…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Conference Reports, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education
Baruch, Grace K.; And Others – 1978
This collection of five case studies reveals how screening programs for preschool and kindergarten children are currently being implemented in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Programs in a variety of communities--large and small, rural, urban and suburban--are portrayed. The screeners interviewed were chosen in part because they also vary in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Identification, Intervention
GROVER, EDWARD C.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE DECLINING ENROLLMENT IN OHIO'S PROGRAMS FOR PARTIALLY SEEING CHILDREN AND THE PROBLEMS OF INCIDENCE, VISUAL FUNCTIONING, AND MULTIPLE HANDICAPS. PARTIALLY SEEING CHILDREN IDENTIFIED BY THE STUDY HAD A VISUAL ACUITY AFTER CORRECTION OF 20/70 OR LESS AND/OR CORRECTION OF MORE THAN 10 DIOPTERS OF MYOPIA. THE SCHOOL NURSES…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Education, Identification, Incidence
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. Div. of Special Education. – 1979
Intended for personnel of local school districts in Oklahoma, the manual offers guidelines for locating, evaluating, and providing special services for handicapped children. Information is presented in question/answer format in six major sections: introduction; awareness campaign (newspaper articles, radio and television, flyers and brochures,…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Guidelines
Children's Bureau (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1967
The texts of laws relating to phenylketonuria are presented for the 37 states having such legislation in November 1966. (LE)
Descriptors: Dietetics, Diseases, Exceptional Child Services, Genetics
New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review, Albany. – 1985
Conducted by New York State's Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review (LCER), this program audit reviews the implementation of the 1980 legislative mandate that all new public school entrants be screened for handicapping conditions or giftedness and that children scoring below specified scores on third and eighth grade statewide standardized…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Finance
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