PO678: Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Rating Scale of Academic Competence

  • PMD: 1,9
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand how developmentally sensitive academic competence items were selected;
  2. contrast procedures for creating developmentally sensitive items on teacher and student rating scale forms; and
  3. recognize which properties are examined when determining the developmental appropriateness of assessments.

Description

School psychologists rely on developmentally appropriate measures to meet K–12 students’ needs. Learn how developmentally sensitive items are created with examples from the updated Academic Competence Evaluation Scales.

Presenter(s)

Katherine E. Frye, The Pennsylvania State University
James C. DiPerna, The Pennsylvania State University
Christopher J. Anthony, University of Florida

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