Jason Anthony

A substantial number of children arrive at elementary school without the skills essential for academic success. Early identification and regular monitoring of children's learning in critical school readiness domains are important features of programs that help close the achievement gap. Unfortunately, many existing language literacy measures designed for use with preschoolers have limited reliability and validity, as well as floor and ceiling effects. Most of the existing measures do not cov...

The primary purpose of this project is to develop and validate a social, emotional, and behavioral risk screener for early childhood. The assessment will be an online and application-based universal screening system available in both English and Spanish. There is a clear need to provide early intervention services to all children to support social-emotional and academic development. This can best be accomplished through the use of efficient screening systems to identify social-emotional need...

The purpose of this project is to add science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) assessments to a recently developed direct child assessment system. The School Readiness Curriculum Based Measurement System (SRCBM) was developed to assess young children's language and literacy skills in Spanish and English. Children's pre-academic skills are associated with their academic achievement in kindergarten and later years of school. Although there is a growing interest in supporting and promot...

Research demonstrates that high quality classroom instruction and supplemental interventions can help close the achievement gaps between typically developing children and those at risk for reading failure because of low levels of initial literacy, socioeconomic disadvantage, and learning English as a second language. Significantly, the best predictors of children's responses to classroom instruction and compensatory intervention tend to be the extent of their literacy and preliteracy skills...