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Long-Term Diagnostic Accuracy of Curriculum-Based Measures in Reading and Mathematics
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Keller-Margulis, Milena A.; Shapiro, Edward S.; Hintze, John M. – School Psychology Review, 2008
This study examined the relation between benchmark data and rate of growth across the year for reading, math computation, and math concepts and applications curriculum-based measures, and a statewide and large-scale achievement test. Results showed that reading and math benchmarks were significantly and moderately correlated with performance on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement
From Research to Practice: Promoting Academic Competence for Underserved Students
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Shapiro, Edward S. – School Psychology Review, 2008
Over many decades, the efforts of researchers to understand key issues in the reading performance of those children most at risk for developing later reading problems has been relentless. This article presents the author's commentary to three studies: (1) Vanderwood, Linklater, and Healy (2008); (2) Edl, Jones, and Estell (2008); and (3) Baker et…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Risk, Research and Development
Are We Solving the Big Problems?
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Shapiro, Edward S. – School Psychology Review, 2006
In 2000, as part of an invited symposium celebrating the start of the new millennium, the author was asked to write an article for "School Psychology Review" in which he tried to look ahead to where the field of school psychology needed to focus its energy in addressing the academic skills problems of children in schools. The article noted that…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, School Psychologists, Illiteracy, School Psychology
Functional Assessment of the Academic Environment.
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Lentz, Francis E., Jr.; Shapiro, Edward S. – School Psychology Review, 1986
This paper discusses classroom variables as an academic ecology; describes how linking assessment to effective intervention requires an understanding of this ecology; reviews procedures for assessing the academic ecology including classroom observations, teacher interviews, and examination of permanent academic products; and presents a case study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Assessment
An Investigation of the Effects of Passage Difficulty Level on Outcomes of Oral Reading Fluency Progress Monitoring.
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Hintze, John M.; Shapiro, Edward S.; Daly, Edward J., III – School Psychology Review, 1998
Examines the use of grade versus goal level reading material on curriculum-based measurement (CBM) progress-monitoring procedures. Students were administered CBM reading passage probes from both grade and goal level material. Rate of progress was indexed in each level of materials. Results indicate that the amount of progress observed varied as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Based Assessment, Grade Equivalent Scores, Oral Reading