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School-Based Tests
Readiness Tests
Aptitude Tests
(capacity for learning)
Achievement Tests
(accomplishments)
DiagnosticsSlide2
Aptitude Tests
(capacity for learning)
Graduate Record Exam
Scholastic
Assessment
Test
(SAT)
Otis-Lennon School Ability TestSlide3
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
Arthur Otis and Roger Lennon
1
st
edition 1979 (earlier versions 30s)
8
th
edition (2009)
Group administered
Pre-K through grade 12
2007 – adopted by NY City Dept of EdSlide4
OLSAT 8
Used for decisions about school placement
Abstract thinking and reasoning ability
21 subtests
5 areas
Verbal and non verbal scores
Overall School Ability Index (SAI)
OLSAT
categoriesSlide5
Achievement Tests (accomplishments)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – second edition (WIAT-II)
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Stanford Achievement Tests
Regents Tests
Self-made instrumentsSlide6
School Readiness
1 - Readiness to learn
Academic Knowledge
-- Metropolitan Readiness Test
2 - Readiness for school
Developmental Milestones
-- Bayley III
-- Gesell Development SchedulesSlide7
Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6)
1994
Kindergarten and Grade 1
80-90 minutes
4 – 7 yearsSlide8
MRT 6
Readiness for First Grade
-- Emerging literacy concepts in an authentic context
-- Developing language/literacy concepts
-- Developing quantitative/mathematics conceptsSlide9
MRT 6
Level 1 – individually administered – pre K
Level 2 – group administered – middle and end of K and beginning of grade 1
Parent-Teacher Conference ReportSlide10
Level 1 – mid kindergarten
6 sub tests
-- Auditory memory
-- Rhyming
-- Letter recognition
-- Visual matching
-- School language and listening
-- Quantitative languageSlide11
Level II – end k. – first grade
6 sub tests
-- Beginning consonants
-- Sound-letter correspondence
-- Visual matching
-- Finding patterns
-- School language
-- ListeningSlide12
MRT6 + Early School Inventory
Physical development checklist
Language development checklist
Cognitive development checklist
Social-emotional development checklist
+ Parent-teacher conference reportSlide13
Developmental Milestones
2 - Readiness for school
-- Gesell Development Schedules
-- Bayley IIISlide14
Gesell Development Schedules
Developed by Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) at Yale
Preschool test – ages 2-6
Gesell School Readiness Test – ages 4-9
Individually administeredSlide15
Gesell measures
physical, emotional, and behavioral
4 Development Schedules (timetables)
-- ability to adapt
-- motor functioning
-- use of language
-- social interactionSlide16
-- Bayley IIISlide17