Improve existing and develop new progress monitoring measures - Years 1 to 5

Goal: To complete a focused series of development and validation studies to produce an assessment system for language and early literacy development that can drive RtI in preschool classrooms

• Evaluate and improve existing measures

• Develop and evaluate new measures

• Produce norms, benchmarks, and other decision rules for all measures

• Build a usable system and set of efficient procedures

• Test feasibility and initial efficacy in classrooms

Objectives are as follows:

• Match measures to functions of assessment

  • Screening and progress monitoring measures

  • General Outcome Measures and Mastery Monitoring Measure

• Maximize efficiency and feasibility
• Incorporate psychometric “best practices” in design, evaluation, implementation

• Build on existing infrastructure, expanding and improving as needed (IGDIs, DIBELS, ggg.umn.edu)

Domains and Functions of Measurement
Back to Focused Program of Research