The Issue

Screening offers tremendous potential to inform school decisions about supports that help students reach their full potential. Yet developers of school-based screeners need to engage processes that (1) balance efficiency and comprehensiveness, (2) center usability (satisfaction, ease of use, effective toward attaining goals), and, (3) evaluate consequential validity.” Learn more in our video:

Our Approach

The process of developing the ESSY Whole Child Screener involved a mixed methods approach that added to traditional assessment development steps. This integrated approach centered attention on consequential validity throughout the development and validation, and included meaning purposeful investigation of intended and unintended consequences from use of the screener and resulting data. This means that multiple opportunities to revise the measure and associated guidance regarding use were provided throughout the development and validation phases.