Description: Global screener for assessing large group of children quickly. Handscoring or online scoring. New features enhance screener’s ability to help predict academic success As much as you’ve enjoyed using DIAL™-3 for quickly screening large groups of young children, the DIAL™-4 delivers even greater benefits! Updates offer early childhood professionals further advantages with time-saving testing, easier administration, and enhanced reliability. DIAL-4 is used by: Preschool and kindergarten teachers Early childhood specialists Child development center personnel Head Start program Program administrators You administer the tool by presenting stimuli one at a time using a dial, manipulatives, and other materials. To give you comprehensive information, DIAL-4 provides scores for all five early childhood areas: Motor area: Gross Motor items include catching, jumping, hopping, and skipping. Fine Motor items include building with blocks, cutting, copying shapes and letters, and writing, and a popular fingertouching task. Language area: Items include answering simple personal questions (name, age, and sex), articulation, naming (expressive) or identifying (receptive) objects and actions, plus phonemic awareness tasks such as rhyming and “I Spy.” Concepts area: Items include pointing to named body parts, naming or identifying colors, rote counting, counting blocks, identifying concepts in a triad of pictures, and sorting shapes. Includes an item that assesses automatic naming of objects, a skill that is associated with potential learning disabilities. Self-help development: Looks at the child’s development of personal care skills related to dressing, eating, and grooming. Social development: Looks at the child’s development of social skills with other children and parents, including rule compliance, sharing, self-control, and empathy. Features & Benefits New norms to support updated edition Lowered floor from 3:0 to 2:6 New items to measure skills important for predicting academic success Reformatted Handbooks and Record Form for easier administration and scoring Simplified administration instructions and scoring rules to reduce errors Teacher Questionnaire allowing for information from multiple sources

Series: DIAL-4

Publisher: Pearson Assessment US

Year Published: 2011

Qualifications: B, Q2

Grade: AGE2.6-5.11

Keywords: preschool tchrs; early childhood specialists;