Amazing List of Diagnostic Assessment Tools

The Provincial Schools Branch’s List of 

Pre-Approved Diagnostic Assessment Tools

(2012-2013)

Pursuant to the Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) No. 155 entitled Diagnostic Assessment in Support of Student Learning, the following is a list of the Pre-Approved Diagnostic Assessment Tools used in PSB schools during the 2012-13 school year.

• Diagnostic assessment is used to identify a student’s needs and abilities and the student’s readiness to acquire the knowledge and skills outlined in the curriculum expectations. 
• Information from diagnostic assessment helps teachers determine where individual students are in their acquisition of knowledge and skills, so that instruction can be personalized and tailored to provide the appropriate next steps for learning.
• This list of assessments does not include special education assessments or large-scale assessments.

Braille Literacy / Low Vision or Blind Education Assessments

• Assessment of Braille Literacy Skills (ABLS)
• Learning Media Assessment of Students With Visual Impairments

American Sign Language / Deaf Education Assessments

• American Sign Language Test Battery  
• American Sign Language Proficiency Assessment (ASL-PA)
• Sign Talk Centre for Children assessment (STCC)
• The Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test (CPVT)

English Language

• Language Assessments
  • Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)
  • Bader Reading and Language Inventory (BRLI)
  • Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills–2 (CIBS-2)
  • Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement 2 (KTEA-II)
  • Manipulative Visual Language assessments (MVL)
  • Michigan Literacy Progress Profile assessment (MLPP)
  • Ontario Comprehension Assessment (OCA)
  • Ontario Curriculum Exemplars 
  • Peabody Individual Achievement Test revised (PIAT-R)
  • Stanford Achievement Test - Hearing Impaired edition (SAT-HI) 
  • Test of Adolescent Language (TOAL-4)
  • Woodcock Johnson III – Test of Achievement (WJ-III)

Reading Assessments

• Academy of Reading assessments 
• Analytical Reading Assessment 9^th edition 
• Comprehension, Attitude, Strategies and Interest Assessment (CASI)
• Developmental Reading Assessment-Second Edition (DRA-2)
• Dolch Sight Word Checklist
• Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty – 3 (DARD-3)
• Empower Reading program assessments
• Fountas & Pinnell Reading assessment
• Pat Myrtle Benchmark Assessment  (PM Benchmark)
• Phonological and Strategy Training Program assessments (PHAST)
• Reading A-Z assessment
• Reading Plus assessments
• Slosson Oral Reading Test-Revised (SORT-R3)
• Test of Reading Comprehension (TORC-3) 

• Writing Assessments
  • Ontario Writing Assessment (OWA)
  • Test of Syntactic Ability (TSA)
  • Test of Written Language (TOWL-4) 
  • Written language samples

• Spelling Assessments
  • Informal Diagnostic Spelling Test – Kottmeyer
  • Morrison McCall spelling assessment

Mathematics

• Academy of Math assessments
• Harcourt Math Assessment
• Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies assessments (JUMP)
• Math Makes Sense
• Ontario Curriculum Exemplars
• Ontario Numeracy Assessment (ONAP)
• Prompt Intervention in Mathematics Education (PRIME) Assessment
• Stanford Achievement Test – Hearing Impaired edition (SAT-Hi)
• Test of Early Mathematics Ability (TEMA-3)
• Woodcock Johnson III – Test of Achievement (WJ-III)

 Home Visiting Program / Resource assessments

• Alternate Curriculum and Assessment Guide (ACAG) for the Congenitally Deafblind (CDB)
• Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)
• Assessment of Braille Literacy Skills (ABLS)
• Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs
• Communication Matrix assessment
• Language Sampling 
• Manipulative Visual Language assessments (MVL)
• Sensory (Kids) Impaired – Home Instruction Language Development Scale (SKI-HI DS)
• Teacher Assessment of Grammatical Structures (TAGS)
• The Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs assessment
• The Oregon Project for Visually Impaired and Blind Preschool Children

Revised and updated January 25^th, 2013

Assessment information gathered and contributed by:

Linda Ritchey, Principal, Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf

Jeanne Leonard,Principal, EC Drury School for the Deaf Elementary

Antony McLetchie, Principal, EC Drury School for the Deaf Senior School and Robarts School for the Deaf

Kelly Michalicka, Principal, Resource Services

Martin Smit, Principal, Sagonaska Demonstration School

Diane Johnstone, Principal, Trillium Demonstration School

John Barry, Principal, Amethyst Demonstration School

Martha Martino, Principal, W Ross Macdonald SchoolLinda Ritchey

Compiled by: Desiree Smith, System Curriculum Principal, Provincial Schools Branch