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The Development Summaries reports gives a series of four scores that summarize a child’s development. Three of the scores are norm-referenced scores, which are widely used in educational programs while one of them is a path-referenced score.
1. Developmental Level Score: This is a path-referenced score. This score indicates the child’s position in a path of development comprised of a series of ordered capabilities outlining a developmental progression for a given developmental area. The developmental level score provides the foundation for setting achievement levels defining standards of performance used in accountability programs.
2. Percentile Rank: This is a norm-referenced score. The easiest to interpret is the percentile rank, which indicates the percentage of persons in the norm group at or below a particular score.
3. Standard Score: This is a norm-referenced score. This score gives the child’s position in the norm group when the mean is set to zero, the standard deviation is set at one and the distribution of scores in the population for the norm group is assumed to be normal.
4. Normal Curve Equivalent Score (NCE): This is a norm-referenced score. This is a normalized standard score with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 21.06. This score specifies the position of the individual in the norm group when the distribution of scores in the norm group is assumed to be normal.
Norm-referenced scores have been widely used in accountability programs. However, they are not used in this way in the Galileo System. In Galileo, the Developmental Level (DL) Score, is generally used for accountability purposes. The Developmental Level Score is particularly useful in those cases in which the goal of assessment is to determine the proportion of children who have met a certain standard.
TIP: This is available to Agency-, Center-, and Class-level users.
Although the Development Summary reports are most widely used by directors and supervisors, they do have some practical uses for teachers. The norm-referenced scores may be useful in those instances in which decisions must be made based on where a child stands in a norm group. For example, knowing the position of the child in relation to the norm group may be helpful in arriving at a decision to refer the child for diagnostic testing. In some cases, norm-referenced scores may be used to assist in planning learning opportunities. For example, a teacher may wish to know the extent to which a child has made progress relative to his or her peers. A norm-referenced score can provide this information. Not only are the norm-referenced scores helpful to teachers, but so are the Developmental Level Scores. The Developmental Level Score can be used to assist in the planning of learning opportunities and in documenting learning outcomes. For example, the Developmental Level Score is used along with other information to compute the probability that a child will be able to perform each of the capabilities in a developmental scale. These show up as the readiness/planning levels that you see in the observation screen and in Developmental Profiles and Milestone reports. This score corresponds to the readiness levels and can thus be used to guide the planning of learning opportunities for children.
Development summaries can be used only with those scales that have been validated. For example, a teacher-made scale in Galileo would not fall into the category of validated scales. To review validated scales please refer to The Galileo System for the Electronic Management of Learning.
1. Click Reports>Individual Development Summary (under Observation Reports).
Report is also accessible from the Child Demographics page Options box.
2. If you are an Agency-level user or a Center-level user with access to more than one center, select the Center for which you wish to generate a report.
3. Use the down arrow on Class drop-down menu to select class for which you wish to generate a report.
4. Enter the Period Ending date or use the calendar to select the date for which you wish to generate a report.
5. Select the Scales you would like to include on this report.
6. Select the Children you would like to include on this report.
7. In the Report Headings section, determine if you to print the scale and:
a. level, select the radio button Print scale name and level.
b. no level, click in the radio button Print name without level.
8. click the Run Report button.
Last Updated: 09.29.17