Correlations between DIAL and DIAL-R: Implications for Early Childhood Screening.

Mardell-Czudnowski, Carol

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Title: Correlations between DIAL and DIAL-R: Implications for Early Childhood Screening.

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Title:	Correlations between DIAL and DIAL-R: Implications for Early Childhood Screening.
Authors:	Mardell-Czudnowski, Carol
Descriptors:	Comparative Analysis; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; International Schools; Kindergarten Children; Screening Tests; Test Validity
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Publication Date:	1984-08-00
Pages:	16
Pub Types:	Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Abstract:	Each of 64 kindergarten children in an international day school (a Western-oriented educational program for foreign national students in Taipei, Taiwan) were administered original and revised forms of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL and DIAL-R), two tests widely used in early childhood screening. Of the 24 items in DIAL-R, 18 are revised from DIAL, three are unchanged , and three are new. All of the new items and most of the revised items were designed to accommodate the extension of the age range down to 2-0 from 2-6 and up to 5-11 from 5-5. Findings imply that (1) significantly high overall correlations between DIAL and DIAL-R support the expectation that longitudinal research on DIAL-R will have at least as high predictive validity as DIAL, if not higher; (2) DIAL extrapolations are not useful and should not be employed; (3) the DIAL scoring rule for the communications area is too stringent for a heterogeneous population; (4) DIAL-R is more appropriate than DIAL for screening kindergartens in which many children are over 5 years and 5 months of age; and (5) scoring DIAL-R by areas rather than by total score drastically decreases the number of children identified as "potential advanced" and slightly increases the number of children identified as "potential problem." (RH)
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Note:	Portions of this paper were presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 24-28, 1984).
Identifiers:	Taiwan
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	1 - Available on microfiche
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Sponsors:	Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei (Taiwan).
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Early Childhood Education

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