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Name: Test of Pre-School Early Literacy (TOPEL)
Year of Publication: 2007
Publisher: Pro-Ed: An International Publisher; Christopher J.
Lonigan, Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgensen
Cost: $247.00
General Purpose: Designed to identify children at-risk or
developing problems in literacy and: 1) To identify children who
are likely to have problems learning to read and write, 2) To
document progress in early literacy-related skills as a result of
intervention, and 3) To measure early literacy skills in research
studies.
Validity
Overall: Based on the information provided in this chapter, one may conclude that the TOPEL is interpreted
appropriately as a valid measure of early literacy abilities. Examiners can use the TOPEL with confidence,
especially when assessing young children residing in deprived environments.
Content-Description Validity: procedures involve the systematic examination of the test content to determine
whether it covers a representative sample of the behavior domain to be measured.
Criterion-Prediction Validity: procedures indicate the effectiveness of a test in predicting an individuals
performance in specific activities. In other words, if the interpretation of the TOPEL as a measure of early literacy
is accurate, the TOPEL subtest and index scores should correlate well with other test scores that are also known to
be related to these abilities.
- To establish criterion-prediction validity for the TOPEL, data was collected on a sample of 154 children (3-,
4-, 5-, y/o). All children in sample were descripted as developing typically for their age.
- Data was collected on 6 criterion measures - TERA-3, EOWPVT, CTOPP Elision subtest, CTOPP Blending
Words, TERA-3 Reading Quotient, and Get Ready to Read.
- Based on the collected data, in all but one comparison, the TOPEl subtests and composite possess large to
very large relationships with the criterion measures. These findings provide evidence of the validity of the
TOPEL as a measure of early literacy skills.
Construct-Identification Validity: the extent to which the test may be said to measure a theoretical construct or
trait. It relates to the degree to which the underlying traits of the test can be identified and to the extent to which
these traits reflect the theoretical model on which the test is based.