School-Based Tests

Readiness Tests
Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning)
Achievement Tests (accomplishments)
Diagnostics
School examples
Aptitude Tests
(capacity for learning)
n Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
n Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
n Graduate Record Exam
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
n Abstract thinking and reasoning ability
n Verbal and non verbal scores
n Overall School Ability Index (SAI)
n Used for decisions about school placement
n Group administered
Achievement Tests
(accomplishments)
n Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
second edition (WIAT-II)
n Iowa Test of Basic Skills
n Stanford Achievement Tests
n Regents Tests
n Self-made instruments
School Readiness
1 - Readiness to learn
Academic Knowledge
-- Metropolitan Readiness Test
2 - Readiness for school
Developmental Milestones
-- Bayley III
-- Gesell Development Schedules

Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT6)
1994
Kindergarten and Grade 1
80-90 minutes
4 7 years

MRT 6
Readiness for First Grade
-- Emerging literacy concepts in an authentic
context
-- Developing language/literacy concepts
-- Developing quantitative/mathematics
concepts
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 Report

Level 1 mid kindergarten
6 sub tests
-- Auditory memory
-- Rhyming
-- Letter recognition
-- Visual matching
-- School language and listening
-- Quantitative language
Level II end k. first grade
6 sub tests
-- Beginning consonants
-- Sound-letter correspondence
-- Visual matching
-- Finding patterns
-- School language
-- Listening
MRT6 + Early School Inventory
Physical development checklist
Language development checklist
Cognitive development checklist
Social-emotional development checklist
+ Parent-teacher conference report
Developmental Milestones

2 - Readiness for school
-- Gesell Development Schedules
-- Bayley III

Gesell Development Schedules
Developed by Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) at
Yale
Preschool test ages 2-6
Gesell School Readiness Test ages 4-9
Individually administered

Gesell measures
physical, emotional, and behavioral
4 Development Schedules (timetables)
-- ability to adapt
-- motor functioning
-- use of language
-- social interaction
-- Bayley III

Diagnostic Tests
Behavioral
Literacy
Math
Behavioral
Connors Rating Scales Revised (CRS-R)
Screen for ADHD
Ages 3 17
Parent version
Adolescent (12-17) self report
Early intervention
-- Formative Assessment
-- Curriculum Based Measure (CBM)
-- Response to Intervention (RTI)
Literacy
-- AIMSweb assessment system (home)
-- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic
Early Literacy Skills) (home site)
-- ISEL Illinois Snapshot of Early
Learning