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Direct linkLiu, Xin; Zhou, Xiaobin; Lackaff, Julie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
The authors demonstrate the increment of clinical validity in early childhood assessment of physical impairment (PI), developmental delay (DD), and autism (AUT) using multiple standardized developmental screening measures such as performance measures and parent and teacher rating scales. Hierarchical regression and sensitivity/specificity analyses…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Developmental Delays, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Peer reviewedMardell-Czudnowski, Carol D. – Journal for Special Educators, 1980
The article describes the preschool screening test, "Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning" (DIAL), and reviews research findings on the test from 1973 through 1978. It is concluded that the DIAL is maintaining relatively high levels of criterion-related validity (both concurrent and predictive) when compared to other…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Predictive Validity, Preschool Education, Preschool Tests
Download full textMardell, Carol; Goldenberg, Dorothea S. – 1976
Described is the development and revision over a 3-year period of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), a screening test to identify pre-kindergarten children with learning disabilities. The DIAL is said to provide for gross motor, fine motor, cognitive, and communications assessment of large groups of children. Among…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Identification, Learning Disabilities, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedVacc, Nicholas A.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1987
Examined the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL) with regard to its effectiveness in predicting school success as determined by subjects' (N=245) first-grade performance on the California Achievement Test (CAT). Found the DIAL concepts subtest to be the most valid single predictor. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Elementary Education, Grade 1
Hall, James W.; And Others
In 1970, the Illinois Legislature passed bills requiring that elementary school districts institute procedures to identify and treat preschool children who, without such intervention, would not progress satisfactorily in a normal school environment. Efforts in this regard resulted in the screening instrument called Developmental Indicators for the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Diagnostic Tests, Intervention, Predictive Validity
Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Mardell-Czudnowski, Carol – 1986
This study investigated whether the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Revised (DIAL-R) norms, established with American children, are applicable to a Canadian population. Based on an early childhood model which incorporates ecological validity as well as predictive validity, the DIAL-R assesses three areas: motor, concepts…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
