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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1987
This one-page abstract summarizes "The Miller Assessment for Preschoolers: A Longitudinal and Predictive Study" by Lucy Miller, which examined the predictive validity of an early childhood screening instrument to identify children who have or are at risk of developing handicapping conditions. The Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP)…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Identification, Evaluation Methods
Billman, Jean – 1988
Using tests that are neither reliable nor valid, school districts are currently categorizing large numbers of children as unready for entrance into kindergarten and first grade. Parents are being asked to wait a year before sending their children to public school classes or to place them in a pre-kindergarten class. Other children complete…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary School Curriculum, Grade Repetition, Kindergarten
Gross, Susan; Frechtling, Joy A. – 1983
The purpose of the present study was to reexamine the screening process being used to select students for gifted and talented programs in the Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland, and to determine whether problems in screening have been overcome. Specifically, the study was designed to: (1) determine whether the revised screening procedures…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Racial Differences
Haber, Julian S.; Norris, Marylee – 1984
This instrument is a revision of the Texas Preschool Screening Inventory (TPSI). It is a screening test designed to identify children who may be at risk for learning problems as they enter kindergarten or first grade. The manual describes the directions for administration, scoring, rationale, and reference for each component of the instrument. The…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students
Wilkinson, Cheryl Yelich; Oakland, Thomas – 1983
Interest in and use of the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment's (SOMPA's) Health History Inventories (HHI) has been intensive despite the unavailability of psychometric data estimating its stability. This paper reports the results of a longitudinal study designed to provide data on the stability of the HHI over a four year period. The…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Biographical Inventories, Black Students, Elementary Education
Achey, Virginia H.; Woods, Sadie Bryant – 1988
An identification procedure was implemented in the Greensboro Public Schools (North Carolina) to address the issue of the underrepresentation of minority students in the Academically Gifted Program. Although approximately 50% of the Greensboro Public School elementary students were minority students, only 13% of the students in the elementary…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Access to Education, Elementary Education
Grimes, Jeff, Ed.; Thomas, Alex, Ed. – 1985
This document contains articles addressing a variety of psychological and behavioral problems of adolescents and children and is intended as a resource tool for school psychologists. Articles include background information, approaches regarding assessment of the behavior of concern, intervention possibilities, monitoring methods, and references.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Children, Decision Making
Winter, Gwen W. – 1987
The state of South Carolina enacted the Educational Improvement Act of 1984 which mandated the identification of young students gifted in the visual and performing arts. This practicum sought to effectively identify South Carolina children in grades 1-3 who were gifted and talented in art, music, drama, and dance. The program used an…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Gifted
Schmidt, Monica; And Others – 1981
This manual, a product of the Washington State Early Entrance Identification Committee, was designed to offer technical assistance to the school districts of Washington State. Its primary objective is to provide information to those districts seeking assistance in the identification of the exceptionally able child who does not meet the age…
Descriptors: Early Admission, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Guidelines
Putnam, Ralph; And Others – 1984
Misconceptions high school students have about constructs in the BASIC programming language were examined in this study. A total of 96 high school students received a screening test after a semester course in BASIC programming, and 56 of these students were subsequently interviewed by means of questions and short programs prepared in advance. The…
Descriptors: Computers, Error Patterns, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedFluharty, Nancy Buono – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Language Handicaps, Learning Disabilities, Preschool Children
Krause, Susan – Academic Therapy, 1974
The Specific Language Disability Test developed by Neva Malcomesius was administered to 195 regular sixth grade students for the purposes of standardization and correlation with achievement and intelligence test scores. (DB)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research
Alpha Plus Corp., Piedmont, CA. – 1977
This classroom screening device was developed by the Circle Preschool First Chance Project, a government-funded program to integrate handicapped children into regular classroom activities, for use in preschools, nursery schools, Head Start centers and other agencies working with young children. It is designed to give a gross measure of a child's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedFinch, A. J.; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children, Parents
Hess, Jack, Comp.; And Others – 1981
Methods and techniques for implementing an adapted physical education program are provided in this guide for elementary physical education teachers. The recommended screening test, "Revised Motor Activity Scale," consists of observable items which are not scored and performance items in three categories which are scored: (1) body awareness and…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Motor Development
