2025 - 2026 Assessments

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DAP:SPED: Draw A Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance Jack A. Naglieri • Timothy J. McNeish • Achilles N. Bardos AGES: 6 through 17 TESTING TIME: 20 minutes ADMINISTRATION: Individual or group Draw A Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED) is a screening test that helps identify children and adolescents (ages 6 to 17 years) who have emotional problems and require further evaluation. The DAP:SPED has items that are used to rate the drawings of a man, a woman, and the self. The items were based on an exhaustive review of the literature on human figure drawings, and the test was written to be objective and quickly scored. The DAP:SPED blends the clinical skills and knowledge reported in the literature over the past 75 years with a modern psychometric approach to test construction. The DAP:SPED was normed on a nationwide sample of 2,260 students representative of the nation as a whole with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, geographic region, and socio- Observation Form: This supplemental form is an assessment tool relying on direct observation methods to assess students’ classroom behavior and emotional prob- lems. It measures observable aspects of the five characteristics of ED (i.e., Inability to Learn, Relationship Problems, Inappropriate Behavior, Unhappiness or Depression, and Physical Symptoms or Fears). Demographic Characteristics: The characteristics of the normative data (i.e., 1,430 students from 23 states and 180 zip codes) closely match those reported in the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2019 (ProQuest, 2018) and SAED‑3: Scales for Assessing Emotional Disturbance–Third Edition Michael H. Epstein • Douglas Cullinan • Corey D. Pierce • Jacqueline Huscroft-D’Angelo • Jessica J. Wery TESTING TIME: Screener—2 minutes; Rating Scale—10 minutes; Observation Form—40 to 50 minutes; Developmental/Education Questionnaire—25 minutes ADMINISTRATION: Individual The Scales for Assessing Emotional Disturbance–Third Edition (SAED-3) will help special educators, education diagnosticians, school psychologists, and other professionals identify students with emotional disturbance (ED). The SAED-3 includes a norm-referenced 45-item Rating Scale, a norm-referenced 10-item Screener, a supplemental Screener Decision Summary Form, a Developmental/Educational Questionnaire, and an Observation Form. These components can be used alone or in various combinations to create IEP goals, supple- ment other Functional Behavior Assessments, document progress, and facilitate research. Each measure is described briefly below. Rating Scale: This is a standardized measure containing 45 items that can be used as part of a comprehensive ED evaluation. It has five core subscales (Inability to Learn, Relationship Problems, Inappropriate Behavior, Unhappiness or Depression, Physical Symptoms or Fears) and one supplemental subscale (Socially Maladjusted) for use with students ages 5-0 through 18-11. It can be completed by educators familiar with the student’s behavior for at least 2 months. Each item is rated on a 4-point scale: 0, not a problem ; 1, mild problem ; 2, considerable problem ; or 3, severe problem . The Rating Scale yields a scaled score having a mean of 10 and standard deviation of 3. Screener: The Screener is a 10-item rating scale that helps identify students who are at risk for ED. It can be completed for an individual or for groups of students by educa- tors who are familiar with the behavior of the student(s). Each item is rated on a 4-point scale: 0, not a problem ; 1, mild problem ; 2, considerable problem ; or 3, severe prob- lem . Scores for each item are summed to obtain the Screener Score. Screener Scores are compared to age- and school-level-based cut scores. Developmental/Educational Questionnaire: The Developmental/Educational Questionnaire is a structured interview designed to gather information from a student’s parent or primary caregiver. Interview items are broken into four sections (Personal and Background Information, Birth and Health Information, Student’s Development and Status, and Family’s Status).

the Digest of Education Statistics 2013 (Snyder & Dillow, 2015). Norms are stratified by school level (lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school). Statistical Characteristics: Internal consistency reliability coefficients for the SAED- 3 Rating Scale subscales

range from .79 to .92 (median = .86). The average coefficient for the Rating Scale Index is .96. The average internal consistency coefficient for the Screener is .88. Test–retest and interrater reliabilities for the SAED-3 Screener and Rating Scale sub- scales all round to or exceed .80. Content-description validity is demonstrated through careful documentation of item selection and analysis, including bias reviews on all items for gender, race, and Hispanic status. Criterion-prediction studies indicate mostly very large or nearly perfect correlations between the Rating Scale subscales and the Behavior Assessment System for Children–Second Edition (BASC-2) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) composites, and large and nearly perfect correlations between the Rating Scale Index and BASC-2 Behavioral Symptom Index and SDQ Total Difficulties composite, respectively. Diagnostic accuracy analyses for the Rating Scale resulted in sensitivities greater than .70, specificities greater than .80, and ROC/AUCs that round to or exceed .70 when differentiating students with ED from typically developing students. Construct-identification validity is demonstrated by including studies of subgroup performance and confirmative factor analysis of the Rating Scale’s structure. These studies indicate that the SAED-3’s internal structure is sound and its results are valid for including in an evaluation of ED. COMPLETE SAED-3 KIT INCLUDES: Examiner’s Manual, 25 Screeners, 25 Screener Decision Summary Forms, 25 Rating Scales, 25 Observation Forms, and 25 Developmental/Educational Questionnaires, all in a sturdy storage box. (©2020) #14825 SAED-3 Complete Kit $340.00 #14826 SAED-3 Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. 78.00 #14826E SAED-3 Virtual Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . ............ 72.00 #14827 SAED-3 Rating Scales (25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............... 60.00 #14828 SAED-3 Developmental/Educational Questionnaires (25) . . .... 64.00 #14829 SAED-3 Observation Forms (25) . . . . . . . . . . . ............. 60.00 #14830 SAED-3 Screeners (25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................ 40.00 #14831 SAED-3 Screener Decision Summary Forms (25) . . . . . ....... 40.00 This is a restricted product. Go to www.proedinc.com for details on user qualifications and to complete the User Acceptance Form.

economic status. Evidence of various types of reliability and validity is well documented in the test manual.

The DAP:SPED yields a standard score ( T score) that is used to determine whether further assessment is (a) not indicated, (b) indicated, or (c) strongly indicated. The DAP:SPED is easy and quickly used and can be administered individually or in a group.

COMPLETE DAP:SPED KIT INCLUDES: Examiner’s Manual, 25 Record Forms, and 10 Scoring Templates, all in a sturdy storage box. (©1991) #5120 DAP:SPED Complete Kit $215.00 #5121 DAP:SPED Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.00 #5122 DAP:SPED Record Forms (25) . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. 71.00 #5123 DAP:SPED Scoring Templates (10) . . . . . . . . . . ............ 62.00 This is a restricted product. Go to www.proedinc.com for details on user qualifications and to complete the User Acceptance Form.

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