Investigators at the Universities of Minnesota, Kansas, and Oregon launched the Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development (ECRI-MGD) in October, 1996, to produce a comprehensive system for continuously measuring the skills and needs of individual children with disabilities from birth to eight years of age.
This measurement system includes two major elements:
- growth and development indicators for monitoring the progress of individual young children; and
- solutions-oriented assessments allowing families and early childhood and early elementary educators to identify features of classroom and home settings they can change to improve children's developmental outcomes.
For more detailed information about this project's background and activities, please select one or more of the following links:
Purpose and goals
To review information relevant to the project's purpose and goals, please select the following link to related Internet sites:
For information on Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) for students in kindergarten through first grade, select the following link:
This publication is available in alternate formats upon request. Please contact: Scott McConnell, University of Minnesota, Center for Early Education and Development, Education Sciences Building, 56 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (612) 624-6365.
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