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The State of School-Based Bilingual Assessment: Actual Practice versus Recommended Guidelines
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Caesar, Lena G.; Kohler, Paula D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2007
Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the frequency with which school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) used recommended practices when assessing the language skills of bilingual students. The study also investigated the frequency with which SLPs used formal, standardized tests versus informal, alternative procedures with this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Language Skills, Standardized Tests, Informal Assessment
A Comparison of Four Informal Methods of Language Evaluation.
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Fujiki, Martin; Willbrand, Mary Louise – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1982
Thirty children from two age levels (4 to 5 and 6 to 7 years) with diagnosed language problems were tested with four informal methods of language evaluation: spontaneous language sampling, elicited imitation, sentence completion, and grammatical judgment. Overall comparisons between tasks revealed significant correlations between spontaneous…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Informal Assessment, Language Handicaps, Language Tests
Functional-Pragmatic Evaluation of Communication Skills in School-Aged Children.
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Simon, Charlann S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1984
Five receptive and five expressive considerations are presented which serve as guidelines for the selection of informal evaluation tasks. The resulting procedure provides descriptive data on a student's auditory processing skills and his/her ability to use language for various purposes. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Language Dominance: A Comparison of Measures
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Gerken, Kathryn C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1978
The study compared the results of four measures of language dominance in a group of 32 Mexican-American children (mean age 6.1 years-old). (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups, Informal Assessment
Familiar Strangers: Criterion-Referenced Measures in Communication Disorders.
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McCauley, Rebecca J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
This article explains characteristics associated with the use and evaluation of criterion-referenced measures by speech language clinicians, in contrast to norm-referenced measures. Guidelines are offered for the evaluation and selection of standardized criterion-referenced measures and for the development and ongoing evaluation of informal…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Methods of Language Assessment: A Survey of California Public School Clinicians.
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Wilson, Kristine S.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1991
Public school speech-language clinicians (n=266) in California were surveyed regarding methods for assessing the language of children ages 4-9. Results are discussed in terms of formal and informal expressive and receptive language assessment and ways in which new assessment tools are identified and incorporated. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language, Informal Assessment, Language Handicaps