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Head Start Helps Disadvantaged Students Prepare for Kindergarten
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Seemungal, Emmeline – Online Submission, 2009
This study examined the correlation between the DIAL-3 scores of disadvantaged students from Head Start, students from other preschools, and students that did not attend a preschool. The study consisted of 110 students who were currently attending kindergarten at an elementary school in Rockland County. The instrument used for this study was the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Raw Scores
A Validity Study of Two Preschool Screening Instruments: The LAP-D and DIAL-R.
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Barnett, David W.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1988
The Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Revised (DIAL-R) and the Learning Accomplishment Profile-Diagnostic (LAP-D) were compared using 121 children in a Head Start Program. Results suggest that profile interpretations of the scales may not differentiate skill domains and that these scales may be indicative of general…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques
Development of Local DIAL-R Norms: A Preliminary Analysis.
Witte, Ray; Fazey, Mark – 1990
The Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning--Revised (DIAL-R) is a standardized developmental screening instrument designed to assess the motor, language (both receptive and expressive), and conceptual skill levels of children 2 to 6 years of age. The appropriateness of national norms for children in Kentucky was studied in a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Local Norms