Personal Testing Program

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Personal Testing Program

• Michaelle Blamey
• Patty Carranza
• Edward Denis
• Rode Pratts
• Claire Noguerol

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Discovery School for Children(Student
Characteristics)

• Grades- Pre K 5th
• Ages- 4 - 11 years
• Rural area/primarily migrant community
• Ethnic breakdown
• Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
• Free and reduced lunches
• Mobility rate
• ESE breakdown

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Coordination of Counseling Services

• Identifying problems relating to transience
• Grade placement
• Academic progress-
  Quarterly academic review meetings
• Coordinating peer facilitators
• Consultation w/teachers, parents, and
  administrators
• Transient individual/group counseling

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School Testing Program

• State Mandated Tests
• Dallas Kinder-readiness
• SAT-9 (Standard Achievement Test) First
  grade-second grade - mandatory
• FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test)
  Third-fifth grade

• School Guidance Tests
• STAR Reading Test
• Woodcock Munoz
• CCAI - Cross-Cultural Adapability Inventory
• UNIT - Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test
• Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement

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STAR Reading Test

• Advantage Learning Systems, Inc., 2001

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Purpose Considerations(STAR)

• Flexibility-can be used in all grade levels
• Placement for incoming students and ESOL students
  
• Scores can indicate normal grade level placement
• Measures vocabulary development as well as
  reading comprehension
• Computerized reading comprehension test
• Determines Accelerated Reading level of students
  in grades 1-12

• Items in cloze format - sentence missing word
  student chooses response in less than 1 minute
• Responses sensitive to syntax and semantics
• Some proficiency in English needs to be
  established before administrationAdministration
  time 10 - 15 minutes

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Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test

• Bruce A. Bracken R. Steve McCallumRiverside
  Publishing, 1998

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Purpose Considerations (UNIT)

• Individual, comprehensive, standardized, norm
  referenced assessment of general intelligence
• Completely non-verbal
• Three forms are designed to fit different time
  constraints and assessment need
• Items administered using eight basic universal
  hand signals and body signals

• Respondant uses paper, pencil, pointing and
  manipulatives
• Designed for children ages 5 to 17
• Five quotient scores-Full Scale Intelligence
  Quotient-Memory Quotient-Reasoning
  Quotient-Symbolic Quotient-Nonsymbolic Quotient

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Culture-Free Self-Esteem Inventories

• James Battle, PhD

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Purpose Considerations (CFSE-2)

• Identify those who need psychological assistance
• Two forms for grades 2-9
• Available in Spanish
• Yes/No responses according to how respondent
  usually feels, thinks or behaves
• Assesses six areas
• General Self Esteem
• Social/Peer-Related Self Esteem
• Academic/School Related Self Esteem
• Parental/Home Related Self Esteem
• Lie subtest

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Woodcock Munoz Language Survey

• Dr. Richard Woodcock Ana F. Munoz-Sandoval

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Purpose Considerations(WMLS)

• Measure of cognitive academic language
  proficiency in English or Spanish
• Assesses oral language, reading and writing in
  the target language
• Five levels of cognitive language proficiency are
  measured from Negligible to Advanced
• Ages 4 to adult
• 15-20 minutes to administer

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An Observation Survey of Early Literacy
Achievement

• Marie Clay, 1993

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Purpose Considerations

• Book - variety of assessments
• Entire survey gives complete picture of student's
  reading and writing abilities and needs
• Each skills test short in length
• Skills tests can be chosen according to
  individual classroom need
• Skills tests meant to be given individually

• Assesses early literacy skills- phonemic
  segmentation and blending- oral reading-
  writing dictation- sight word recognition-
  letter identification- writing vocabulary-
  writing sample

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Other Factors/Considerations