DIAL-4 Manual

Material Type

Manuals

Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning, Fourth Edition

Carol Mardell

Dorothea S. Goldenberg

Assess all five areas of early childhood development easily and efficiently.

Platform Type

Q-global

Record Forms

Report Type

Score Reports

Subscriptions

Scoring Type

Hand/Manual Scoring

Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning 4th Ed is a screener for academic success. Assess large groups of children quickly with DIAL-4.

Kits

Booklets, record forms, answer sheets, report usages & subscriptions

Test forms & reports

Manuals, stimulus books, replacement items & other materials

Support materials

All tests and materials offered for DIAL-4

All products

Speed DIAL-4 Screening Kit

A usage includes scoring and reporting

Q-global Online Scoring and Reporting Scoring Options:

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<li>ME - Manual entry</li>

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The first time you purchase a Q-global report usage, subscription or digital asset a Q-global account will automatically be created for you.

DIAL-4 Q-global Scoring Report

Speed DIAL-4 Q-global Score Report

Speed DIAL-4 Record Forms pack of 50

Includes:

<ul>

<li>Record Forms pack of 50</li>

<li>Cutting Cards pack of 50</li>

<li>Parent Questionnaires pack of 50</li>

</ul>

DIAL-4 Administration Forms

DIAL-4 Parent Questionnaires pack of 50

1 Year Subscription (per user) for generating reports administered using paper forms

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Q-global Online Scoring and Reporting Scoring Options:

<ul>

<li>ME - Manual entry</li>

</ul>

The first time you purchase a Q-global report usage, subscription or digital asset a Q-global account will automatically be created for you.

Q-global DIAL-4 Unlimited-Use Score Report 1 Year Subscription

DIAL-4 Record Forms pack of 50 and Cutting Cards pack of 50

DIAL-4 Teacher Questionnaire pack of 25

DIAL-4 Parent/Child Activity Form pack of 50

Includes: 
 
Manual, 50 Record Forms (English), 1 Record Form (Spanish), 50 Cutting Cards, 50 Parent Questionnaires (English), 25 Teacher Questionnaires (English), Manipulatives, Dials, Operator&#39;s Handbooks in English and Spanish for Motor, Concepts, and Language Areas plus the Speed DIAL, Training Packet, and Training URL Letter

DIAL-4 Complete Kit (Print)

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Overview

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			<h3>New features help predict academic success in young children.</h3>

			As much as you&rsquo;ve enjoyed using DIAL&trade;-3 for quickly screening large groups of young children, the DIAL&trade;-4 delivers even greater benefits! Updates offer early childhood professionals further advantages with time-saving testing, easier administration, and enhanced reliability. DIAL-4 has been re-designed, re-normed and now for use with ages 2:6 to 5:11!

			<h3>Users &amp; Applications</h3>

			DIAL-4 is used by:

			<ul>
				<li>Preschools and Kindergartens</li>
				<li>Early childhood specialists</li>
				<li>Educational and Developmental Psychologists&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
				<li>Speech Language Pathologists</li>
				<li>Occupational Therapists</li>
			</ul>

			<h3>Content &amp; Administration</h3>

			To give you comprehensive information, DIAL-4 provides scores for all five early childhood areas:

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				Motor area: Gross Motor items include catching, jumping, hopping, and skipping. Fine Motor items include building with blocks, cutting, copying shapes and letters, writing, and a popular finger touching task.
				</li>
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				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 &ldquo;I Spy.&rdquo;
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				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.
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				Self-help development: Looks at the child&rsquo;s development of personal care skills related to dressing, eating, and grooming.
				</li>
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				Social development: Looks at the child&rsquo;s development of social skills with other children and parents, including rule compliance, sharing, self-control, and empathy.
				</li>
			</ol>

			<h3>Materials</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>Training materials</li>
				<li>Manual</li>
				<li>Easy-to-follow Operator&rsquo;s Handbooks</li>
				<li>Lightweight, one-piece dials</li>
				<li>Separate zippered bags for each developmental area assessed</li>
				<li>Easy-to-use carrying bag</li>
				<li>Teacher Questionnaire&mdash;Offers the opportunity for teacher feedback</li>
				<li>Parent Questionnaire&mdash;Helps gather information about the child&rsquo;s health history, background, and development of self-help and social skills</li>
				<li>Report to Parents&mdash;Helps facilitate discussion with parents and caregivers about their child&rsquo;s progress</li>
				<li>Optional Parent-Child Activity Form&mdash;Suggests activities parents can use to help their child improve motor, language, concepts, self-help, and social skills</li>
				<li>Speed Dial Screener included in each DIAL 4 Kit -save even more time with a shortened version of DIAL-4. Speed DIAL is appropriate for quick screening in smaller settings such as departments of public health, pediatric offices, health fairs, homes, and classrooms</li>
			</ul>

			<h3>Scoring &amp; Reporting</h3>

			DIAL-4 provides standard deviation and percentile cut-off points by chronological age at two-month intervals for total and area scores&mdash;Motor, Concepts, Language, Self-Help, and Social Development. Percentile ranks and standard scores are also provided.

			Scoring &amp; Reporting using Q-global 
			Accessible from any computer connected to the Internet, <a href="/digital-solutions/q-global.html" target="_blank">Q-global</a> helps administrators quickly and efficiently:

			<ul>
				<li>Upload child information into the system via a csv file</li>
				<li>Enter raw scores</li>
				<li>Generate accurate reports for individual children or groups of children</li>
				<li>Securely access assessment information</li>
			</ul>

			This scoring and reporting system is designed for entering raw scores from the paper based record form only. You will not be able to administer the DIAL-4 online using this program.

			<a href="/digital-solutions/q-global.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Now available on Q-global, click for more info" src="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/q-global/q-global-image.jpeg" /></a>

			<h3>Q-global&reg; Administration Options</h3>

			This product is available on Q-global with the following administration options:

			Manual Entry - Scoring and Reporting Only (ME)

			These assessments are administered in paper-pencil format only, and can be scored by entering raw data into Q Global for scoring and reporting.

			If you would like more information, please visit the <a href="/store/en/p/P100010188">Q-global product page</a>.
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Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning, Fourth Edition

DIAL-4

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