Riverside's Universal Screening Assessments
Purpose: Identify students who need intervention.
How to Use:
  		• Administer early in the school year.
  		• Identify students achieving significantly below grade level.
  		• They will be the focus of interventions
  		• Identify students achieving at and above grade level. Create additional instructional group.
  		• Follow up with individual, diagnostic assessment as needed to inform intervention and enrichment strategies.
    The Iowa Tests®
    Type: Achievement battery
    Grades: K-12
    Content: Reading, Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Sources of Information
    With more than seventy years of tradition, research, and development, The Iowa Tests are the premier group-administered achievement tests on the market. They provide an in-depth assessment of students’ achievement of important educational objectives across a wide breadth of content areas. Use them to determine who needs intervention, and to begin informing what type of intervention is needed. Innovative reporting options like Interactive Results Manager™ (iRM™) provide different access points to data for your problem-solving teams.

     
    Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests® (GMRT®)
    Type: Achievement battery
    Grades: Pre-K–Adult
    Content: Reading
    GMRT is a group-administered assessment that surveys the general level of reading achievement for individuals throughout their school career. Use GMRT to identify students who need reading interventions. Start with measures of consonants, vowels, and basic story words for beginning readers. Continue with more complex vocabulary and comprehension measures for older learners. Linking Testing to Teaching manuals provide insight on how to use scores to guide instruction and intervention. Paper and online administration and reporting options provide flexibility for your RTI model.

     
    Battelle Developmental Inventory™, Second Edition (BDI-2™)
    Type: Developmental screener
    Grades: Pre-K–2 (Birth to 7 years, 11 months)
    Content: Adaptive, Personal Social, Communication, Motor, Cognitive
    BDI-2 is an individually administered measure of important behavioral and developmental milestones. Use the screening component of BDI-2 for early identification of deficits that could later impact academic achievement. Early identification lends itself to timely developmental remediation, so as young children grow into their scholastic careers, they are less likely to need the intensive academic interventions associated with RTI. Optional PDA technology makes item collection and reporting quick and easy.

     

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