Preschool Early Literacy

Indicators
How Does It Assess the
Critical Early Literacy Skills?

PELI Assesses the Critical Preschool

Literacy Skills

! Measures are indicators of childrens skill

level. What is an indicator?
Height and weight

Temperature

PELI Assesses the Critical Preschool

Literacy Skills

! PELI assesses each of the four critical

preschool literacy skills.
! Alphabet Knowledge
! VocabularyOral Language
! Comprehension
! Phonological Awareness

PELI Benchmark Materials

! Benchmark Assessment: 10 different books

equally difficult
! 5 books for 34 year olds children who are two
years away from kindergarten entry
! 3 Benchmark books
! 2 Interim (PM) books
! 5 books for 45 year olds children who will be
going to kindergarten in the next school year
! 3 Benchmark books
! 2 Interim (PM) books
! Score Forms corresponding to each book
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How to Use PELI Benchmark Materials

Use Benchmark books to assess all children three

times per year:
! Beginning of year
! Middle of year
! End of year
Use Interim books to assess some children
between Benchmark assessments

PELI Progress Monitoring Materials

! Progress Monitoring: Quick Checks

! Scoring booklets and corresponding student
materials for:
! Alphabet Knowledge
! VocabularyOral Language
! Phonological Awareness

How to Use PELI Progress Monitoring

Materials

Use Quick Checks to monitor progress of children

who are receiving additional instructional support in
one or more critical skills:
! Alphabet knowledge
! Vocabulary-oral language
! Phonological awareness

PELI Books for PK 3/4

PELI Books for PK 4/5

PELI Score Forms

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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview

Storybook Format
! The Assessor sits beside the child.
! Assessors directions are written in bold on the righthand side of the book.
! The child is directed to pictures on the left-hand side of
the book.
! The assessment
is untimed.

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Features of PELI

! Storybook format is familiar to preschool students

Student
Pictures

! Child sits to left of assessor

Assessor
Directions

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Features of PELI

! Stories feature diverse characters

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Scales and Subtests

Early Literacy

Language

! Alphabet knowledge
! Name upper- and
lower-case le<ers
! Phonological awareness
! Iden?fy rst syllable
in two-syllable words
! Iden?fy rst sound in
single-syllable words

! Comprehension
! Answer ques?ons about
story (who, what, when,
where, why, predic?on,
inference)
! Fill in details from story
in retell (CLOZE task)
! Vocabulary/oral language
! Names pictures
! Tells about pictures/
words
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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview: Introduction

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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview: Alphabet Knowledge

Alphabet knowledge
! Child is asked to name
as many letters as he/
she knows from an array
of letters embedded in
theme-related picture.
! Score is number of
letters correctly named.

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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview: Vocabulary-Oral Language

Vocabulary/Oral Language
! Child is shown a scene
related to the theme of the
book.
! Child is asked to:
! a) name 10 items
! b) tell everything he/she
can about 5 items.
! Score is total of a) number
of pictures correctly named
and b) quality of response
rating for Tell About.

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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview: Comprehension

Comprehension
! Comprehension Questions:
Assessor reads a story
pausing to ask questions
before, during and after.
! Shared Retell: Child fills in
missing words during a
brief retelling of the story.
! Score is total of: a)
questions correctly
answered and b) correct
responses during Shared
Retell.

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PELI Administration and Scoring

Overview: Phonological Awareness

Phonological Awareness
! Game format
! The assessor shows and
names a picture and
asks the child to say the
first part or the first
sound in words.
! Score is total of: first parts
of words and first sounds in
words that child says.

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PELI Quick Checks

! Use to progress monitor a single skill:

! Alphabet Knowledge
! Phonological Awareness
! Vocabulary and Oral Language

! 10 alternate forms in a booklet

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Sample Quick Check Scoring Booklet:

Vocabulary-Oral Language

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Sample Quick Check Scoring Booklet:

Vocabulary-Oral Language

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Sample Quick Check Student

Materials: Vocabulary-Oral Language

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Sample Quick Check Student

Materials: Vocabulary-Oral Language

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Research on PELI
Study 1: n = 90 130
! Descriptive statistics
! Concurrent validity

Study 2 n = 32
! Reliability
! Inter-rater
! Alternate form
! Test-retest

Study 3 n = 165
! Descriptive statistics
! Concurrent and predictive
validity

Study 4: n = 44
! Comparison of versions

Study 5 n = 136
! Vocabulary study

Study 6 n = 258
! Preliminary benchmark goals

Study 7 n = 2746
! Benchmark Goal Study

Study 8 n = 5150
! Year 1 Early Release
! Validate benchmark goals
! Equating study

Study 9 n = 6033
! Year 2 Early Release
! Validate benchmark goals

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Reliability and Validity of the PELI

Inter-rater reliability: .96 - .99
Alternate form reliability: .75 .96
Criterion-related validity with PPVT, CELF
ELI: .36 - .72
Criterion related validity with TOPEL, GRTR: .
28 - .92

Bravo Aguayo & Kaminski, 2012; Bravo Aguayo & Squires, submitted for
publication; Kaminski, Abbott, Bravo Aguayo, Good, & Latimer, 2013
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PELI Correlations with Criterion

Measures (Kaminski et al., 2014)

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PELI Benchmark Goals Analyses

Conditional probability of meeting goal on external
criterion measure(s)
! CELF PreK Expressive Language Index (40th
%ile)
! DIBELS Next Kindergarten BOY Composite
Score
Primary specification: Establish goals whereby odds
are favorable (80-90%) of achieving outcome
Secondary specification: Keep marginal percents
consistent (e.g., 40%)
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Benchmark Goals (Kaminski et al., 2014)

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Sensitivity to Effects of Intervention

(Kaminski et al., in preparation)

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Questions?

For information about the PELI Early Release for

Research Partners go to:
! https://dibels.org/ann_peli.html
For other questions, send email to:
! info@dibels.org

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