Universal Screening in Educational Settings ― Evidence-based Decision Making for Schools

The 11 chapters here outline evidence-based guidelines for selecting, developing, implementing, and interpreting universal screening instruments to identify academic-educational and mental health-behavioral preventive interventions that address individual students' needs in educational settings and the efficacy of core programs. Educational psychologists from the US show school professionals, state assessment leaders, test developers, researchers, and graduate students key aspects of universal screening; how universal screening fits within educational models of response to intervention and multiple-gate screening; technical considerations for screening instruments, including psychometric characteristics and implementation; content-specific screening for early literacy, reading, math, academics and behavior at the same time, and behavioral and mental health screening; and considerations for English language learners. They do not include information on health screening. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)