School-Based Tests   Readiness Tests   Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning)   Achievement Tests (accomplishments)   Diagnostics

Aptitude Tests (capacity for learning) n n Graduate Record Exam n n Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)(SAT) n n Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

Otis-Lennon School Ability Test n Arthur Otis and Roger Lennon n 1 st edition 1979 (earlier versions 30s) n 8 th edition (2009) n Group administered n Pre-K through grade 12 n 2007 – adopted by NY City Dept of Ed

OLSAT 8 n n Used for decisions about school placement n n Abstract thinking and reasoning ability n n 21 subtests n n 5 areas n n Verbal and non verbal scores n n Overall School Ability Index (SAI) n OLSAT categories OLSAT categories OLSAT categories

Achievement Tests (accomplishments) n n Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – second edition (WIAT-II) n n Iowa Test of Basic Skills n n Stanford Achievement Tests n n Regents Tests n 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) n 1994 n Kindergarten and Grade 1 n minutes n 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 n Level 1 – individually administered – pre K n Level 2 – group administered – middle and end of K and beginning of grade 1 n Parent-Teacher Conference Report

Level 1 – mid kindergarten n 6 sub tests -- Auditory memory -- Auditory memory -- Rhyming -- Rhyming -- Letter recognition -- Letter recognition -- Visual matching -- Visual matching -- School language and listening -- School language and listening -- Quantitative language -- Quantitative language

Level II – end k. – first grade n 6 sub tests -- Beginning consonants -- Beginning consonants -- Sound-letter correspondence -- Sound-letter correspondence -- Visual matching -- Visual matching -- Finding patterns -- Finding patterns -- School language -- School language -- Listening -- Listening

MRT6 + Early School Inventory n Physical development checklist n Language development checklist n Cognitive development checklist n Social-emotional development checklist n + Parent-teacher conference report

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

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

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

-- Bayley III