Guides: Special Education: Assessments & Tests at Milner

Tests & Measures

A full list of all testing materials for Special Education students and faculty can be found under Special Education Test Kits on the Milner Catalog. The list below will highlight commonly used tests in Special Education Courses.

AGS Early Screening Profiles by American Guidance Service The AGS Early Screening Profiles is used to assess general development in Language, Motor, and Social skills.
Call Number: LB1131.75 .A37 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Brigance Inventory of Early Development II by Albert H. Brigance The IED-II is designed to provide information on how a child is performing in five key standardized developmental areas including; language, motor skills, cognitive skills, daily living, and play skills or behavioral skills.
Call Number: LB1131.75 .B74 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL 3) by Mardell-Czudnowski, Carol.; Goldenberg, Dorothea.; American Guidance Service The DIAL-3 is a norm-referenced screening instrument. It is meant to identify young children (ages 3 to 6 years, 11 months) at-risk or with delays in one or more of the following five developmental areas: cognitive/basic concepts, language, motor, self-help, and social-emotional.
Call Number: LB1134 .M37 1998
Publication Date: 1998
FirstStep Screening Test for Evaluating Preschoolers by Miller, Lucy J.; Psychological Corporation. FirstSTEp is a screening test that seeks to identify preschoolers with developmental delays. It allow you to 1) identify children who need in-depth diagnostic testing and 2) address IDEA domains: Cognition, Communication, and Motor. Reports classify results as Within Acceptable Limits, Caution, or At-Risk.
Call Number: LB1132 .M55 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test (K-FAST) by Kaufman, Alan S.; Kaufman, Nadeen L. The Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test (K-FAST) is a short individually administered, nationally normed measure of an adolescent's or adult's ability to demonstrate competence in reading and mathematics as applied to daily life situations. The K-FAST can be given to people aged 15 to over 85 years.
Call Number: LB3060.33.K37 K384 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills by Kaufman, Alan S.; Kaufman, Nadeen L.; American Guidance Service. K-SEALS is an individually administered, nationally normed measure of children's language (expressive and receptive skills), pre-academic skills (knowledge of numbers, number concepts, letters, and words), and articulation.
Call Number: LB1132 .K385 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Mullen Scales of Early Learning by Mullen, Eileen M.; American Guidance Service. Mullen Scales are a comprehensive scale of mental and motor ability for children, birth through sixty-eight months of age. Assesses abilities in visual, linguistic and motor domains on five scales: gross motor, visual reception, fine motor, receptive language, and expressive language.
Call Number: BF432.5.M83 M84 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Test of Early Language Development (TELD-3) by Hresko, Wayne P.; Reid, D. Kim.; Hammill, Donald D., 1934-; Pro-Ed TELD-3 is an instrument to measure early development of oral language in four areas: receptive language, expressive language, syntax and semantics. Administered individually to children ages 2 through 7.
Call Number: LB1139.L3 H74 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Young Children's Achievement Test (YCAT) by Hresko, Wayne P.; Pro-Ed The Young Children’s Achievement Test (YCAT) provides early identification of children at risk for school failure. It yields an overall Early Achievement standard score, and individual subtest standard scores for General Information, Reading, Writing, Mathematics, and Spoken Language.
Call Number: LB3060.217 .Y68 2000
Publication Date: 2000

How to Request Tests

To ensure assessments are available for students and faculty when needed, they need to be requested prior to the day and time they are needed.

Use the following steps to make your request:

Identify the assessment you need to request either from the list on this page or on the Milner Catalog.
Send an email to MilnerSED@ilstu.edu; include the test's name and when you need to pick it up.
Wait to receive confirmation and further instructions from library staff.

If you have questions about requesting a test, feel free to contact your SED subject librarian.

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