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The Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities: A Summary of Research on Best Practices
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Fletcher, Jack M.; Miciak, Jeremy – Grantee Submission, 2019
In this report, we summarize research on the identification of SLD and make recommendations for practice. The report begins with a summary of the legal requirements for SLD identification and what constitutes a comprehensive evaluation. It then discusses the attributes of SLD according to different conceptual frameworks and reviews research on the…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Reliability
Evidence for Response Bias as a Source of Error Variance in Applied Assessment
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McGrath, Robert E.; Mitchell, Matthew; Kim, Brian H.; Hough, Leaetta – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Psychometrics, Investigations, Error of Measurement
Classification of Learning Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Evaluation. Executive Summary.
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Fletcher, Jack M.; Lyon, G. Reid; Barnes, Marcia; Stuebing, Karla K.; Francis, David J.; Olson, Richard K.; Shaywitz, Sally E.; Shaywitz, Bennett A. – 2001
This paper reviews research on the classification of students with learning disability (LD). It first examines the evolution of LD definitions and the evidence for three components of LD classification: discrepancy, heterogeneity, and exclusion. It suggests that classification hypotheses involving discrepancy and exclusion have weak validity and…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
Use of Curriculum-Based Measurement in Identifying Students with Disabilities.
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1997
Provides background information on how curriculum-based measurement (CBM) was developed, how CBM integrates traditional and classroom-based observational approaches to assessment, and how CBM has been used. Describes an alternative framework for incorporating CBM into an identification process that focuses on treatment validity and student growth.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Clinical Diagnosis, Curriculum Based Assessment, Disabilities
Responsiveness-to-Intervention: Definitions, Evidence, and Implications for the Learning Disabilities Construct.
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Fuchs, Douglas; Mock, Devery; Morgan, Paul L.; Young, Caresa L. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
This article describes the two basic versions of the responsiveness-to-intervention (RTI) approach for identifying learning disabilities, the problem solving model and the standard-protocol approach. It reviews evidence on effectiveness and feasibility and concludes that more needs to be understood before RTI may be viewed as a valid…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Classification, Definitions, Disability Identification
Assessing Intervention Responsiveness: Conceptual and Technical Issues.
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Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
This article explores conceptual and technical issues associated with options for specifying three assessment components for implementing an intervention responsiveness approach to the identification of learning disabilities: the timing of the measurement of student response to intervention; the criterion for demarcating learning as inadequate;…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Classification, Definitions, Disability Identification