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Titley, Jonathan E.; D'Amato, Rik Carl; Koehler-Hak, Kathrine M. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2014
The identification of children at-risk for reading problems can be costly and time-consuming. Previous research has indicated that teachers are relatively accurate in assessing children's overall reading ability. This study investigated the accuracy of kindergarten and first grade teacher rating scales in predicting children's reading…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Evaluation, Achievement Rating, At Risk Students
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Lee, Brason – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2014
This study applies a diagnostic errors framework to identify and classify mistakes that were made in a psychoeducational assessment of a bilingual student who was misidentified as a person with autism. Findings of diagnostic errors were categorized under four domains--faulty knowledge, faulty data gathering, faulty data processing, and faulty…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Evaluation Methods, Error Patterns, Knowledge Level
Gersten, Russell; Clarke, Benjamin S.; Haymond, Kelly; Jordan, Nancy C. – Center on Instruction, 2011
Since 2007, when this technical report was originally issued, the assessment field has made considerable progress in developing valid and reliable screening measures for early mathematics difficulties. This update includes new research published since 2007. It focuses on valid and reliable screening measures for students in kindergarten and first…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Problems, Screening Tests, Kindergarten