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Maryland’s Early Childhood Intervention and Special Education System of Services Birth through Five
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Maryland’s Early Childhood Intervention and Special Education System of

Services Birth through Five

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Assessment Think Tank Purpose

Create a Comprehensive, Coordinated, High Quality

Assessment System to Support the Building of a Birth through Five

System of Services

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Maryland's Assessment Think Tank Members

National•OSEP State Contact•TA specialists - NECTAC and MSRRC•Educational Consultants

State •Representatives from the Early Childhood Intervention & Education Branch (Part C & B), in the Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services at the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)•Asst. State Superintendent and other representatives from the Division of Early Childhood Development, at the MSDE

Local •Local Directors/Coordinators of Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education programs•Local evaluation/assessment practitioners

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Review commonly used, current, national, and State practicesIdentify critical components of an assessment system/tool through research and best practicesDesign assessment matrix to analyze toolsReview selected assessment tools through publisher and user presentationsEvaluate critical components for each tool

Assessment Think Tank Process

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Maryland’s Assessment Think Tank Products

Define the ECIE Assessment SystemRecommend “Assessment Tool Box” Define statewide evaluation/assessment process5

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Vision for Maryland’s Birth through Five Assessment

System

Maryland’s Early Childhood Intervention and Education (ECIE) Assessment System provides a reliable, valid, and coordinated approach to support families and build capacity for early care and education programs. This approach promotes positive developmental and educational outcomes through full access, participation, and supports in home and community life, for young children with disabilities and their families.

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Purpose-Driven Assessment

1. Determining child eligibility

2. Decision-making for individual child and family results

3. Meeting federal, state, and local accountability requirements

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Recommended Assessment Tool Box

Overview of the Assessment Analysis Matrix

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Maryland’s Recommended Assessment Process

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•Options for eligibility

•Options for child and family results

•Requirements for measuring child outcomes

•Assessment timelines

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Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI-2)

Brigance Inventory of Early Development II

Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC)

Early Learning Accomplishments Profile (E-LAP)*

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment (TPBA 2)*

As AppropriateTargeted Specialized Assessments

Medical ReportsInformed Clinical Opinion

* Not as a sole tool for determining eligibility using the 25% delay criteria

Maryland’s Recommended Tool Box

Eligibility (Birth to 3)

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Child DevelopmentAssessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS)

Brigance Inventory of Early Development Carolina Curriculum

Early Learning Accomplishments Profile (E-LAP)*Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)

*The Ounce Scale Teaching Strategies GOLD

*Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment and Intervention (TPBA/I 2)

Maryland’s Recommended Tool Box

Decision-Making for Individual Child and Family Results

11 * Includes robust family report component

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Child Development through Family Report

Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3)

Routines Based Interview (RBI)

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment (TPBA-2)

Family Assessment (Concerns, Priorities and Resources)

Family Interview Tool (locally developed)

Routines Based Interview (RBI)

Maryland’s Recommended Tool Box

Decision-Making for Individual Child and Family Results

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Children Birth to 3 •Child Outcomes Summary Form (COSF) – Use at least one recommended assessment tool crosswalked to the COSF and all available sources of information

Children 3 to Kindergarten Age •Work Sampling System (WSS) and the Child Outcomes Summary Form (COSF) for all children with extended IFSPs. •Work Sampling System (WSS) and the Child Outcomes Summary Form (COSF) for all children with IEPs.

Kindergarten Age •Work Sampling System (WSS)

Required Child Outcome/Accountability

Measures

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NEXT STEPS -Timeline

Leadership Conference presentation

Local jurisdiction decision-making on local assessment tool box

Focused training on assessment tools of choice

Statewide implementation of Maryland’s ECIE Evaluation/Assessment System practices

July 1, 2011

September 2010

Assessment Tool Box Statewide Open House October 26, 2010

WSS required for all children receiving services through an Extended IFSP

Winter/Spring 2011

February 1, 2011

January 1, 2011