Language and literacy assessments in first grade

[Simon Connor]

Hi Lulu

You probably have lots of ideas by now but I work as an applied educational psychologist and find the Bishop cc2 to be very useful if I need an overview - it can be completed by parents before they come into the lab to meet you, (where you could do more in depth / specific assessment in addition) and covers a good breadth of communicative behaviours. I imagine it would be ok for international usage also.

I hope this is of use.

Simon

Dr Simon Connor
Warwickshire Educational Psychology Service



On 19 Aug 2010, at 17:11, 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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> New York University
> The Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education
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