Biomedical subjects

D E Jorgenson

Publications and source records attributed to D E Jorgenson.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1996

Concurrent and predictive validity of an early childhood screening test.

The purpose of this study was to validate an early childhood screening instrument concurrently with other established psychoeducational tests and predictively with a standardized measure of achievement. A battery of tests including a screener and five other established psychoeducational measures was administered to 64 children during their kindergarten year. An achievement test was administered to 33 of these children during their third grade year. The screening test scores were found to be significantly related to the results of other psychoeducational measures both concurrently and predictively. The instrument permits teachers to gather behavior samples in minutes.

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PubMed1990

Early childhood testing and school learning problems: a cross-validation.

Educators in the early school grades often find themselves in a dilemma when evaluating children's skills. Formal testing procedures are often inappropriate for young children and can wrongly identify them as deficient. The purpose of this study was to help teachers in making early decisions regarding individual children that would be accurate and helpful in designing educational programs. A screener was identified during the first year that discriminated between kindergarten children identified by their teachers as high-achieving or low-achieving. The results of a subsequent cross-validation yielded a relationship between the screener and the teachers' evaluations that was statistically significant.

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PubMed1989

The early prediction of school learning problems.

The purpose of this research was to determine a reliable and realistic set of variables for teachers to assist in early identification of children with special needs. Sixty-four kindergarten children participated in the study, 32 identified as high achieving and 32 identified as low achieving by their teachers. Variables included were information from questionnaires answered by parents and teachers and results of standardized tests. Based on the results of the analyses, variables and tests are suggested for distinguishing between groups of children who may experience school success or difficulties.

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PubMed1987

A cluster analysis of learning disabled children.

Cluster analysis was employed with the intent of describing more homogeneous subgroups of learning disabled (LD) children. The parents and teachers of 29 children placed in special education as learning disabled completed questionnaires concerning demographic information regarding the families; birth, medical, and developmental histories regarding the children were also included. Variables for the analysis were those found, by means of discriminant analysis in an earlier study, to be significantly related to LD as opposed to regular education children. The presence of developmental delays (speaking or walking later than expected), birth order, and sex of the children were influential in the definition of the clusters.

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