Language and literacy assessments in first grade

[Tom Roeper]

Dear Lulu---
   The DELV test from Psychological Corporation which we developed
is designed to bring out many aspects of language ability while being
sensitive to dialect differences.  In particular, it has many syntactic
and semantic subtests which are not involved with inflections, where
many dialects differences are present, and which play a dominant
role in many tests, causing children with dialects to be identified as
disordered.
   It would seem to be a natural test to include.

Tom Roeper

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Lulu Song <lulusong at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> We are currently preparing our 6th-year protocol for a longitudinal
> study of ethnic minority urban children and looking for suggestions on
> first-grade language and/or literacy assessments.
>
> The participants are African American, Dominican, Mexican and Chinese
> children born in the US and followed since birth. The 6th-year wave
> will take place roughly after the children have spent one semester in
> first grade. Children and their mothers will be invited to our lab for
> a 2-hour visit, of which 20-30 minutes will be allotted for language
> and literacy tests of the children. All assessments will be conducted
> by bilingual research assistants who can speak both English and the
> child's native language.
>
> In the past waves, we have used the MCDI, Mullen, EOWPVT (Expressive
> One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test) and Woodcock Johnson's subtests of
> Letter-word Identification and Passage Comprehension. We are looking
> for measures of children's language and literacy skills in first grade
> as outcome variables.
>
> We would really appreciate if you have any suggestions on which areas
> we should consider assessing and what instruments we might use (in our
> limited time frame).
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best regards,
> Lulu Song
>
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> 宋露露 Lulu Song, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> New York University
> The Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education
> 246 Greene Street 517E
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Tom Roeper
Dept of Lingiustics
UMass South College
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