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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
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
