REPORTS

QUICK INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE SCREENER $ ^{\mathrm {TM}}$

Developed by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., Jill de Villiers, Ph.D.,
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., Aquiles Iglesias, Ph.D., & Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D.

A fun and effective web-based tool for
screening young children’s language skills

Student Reports

Once a student has completed the screening, you can generate a variety of reports to view that student’s results. Student Reports provide an overview of the student’s screening, including overall performance, area scores, and brief recommendations. Brief descriptions of each Student Report follow. (For more information on scoring and interpreting the QUILS, refer to Chapter 7.)

Student Brief Report

This report provides a brief overview of the student’s individual screening.

It includes the student’s overall score as well as his or her area scores for Vocabulary, Syntax, and Process. A bar graph displays the percentile ranks based on the relevant age norms. A separate section indicates follow-up recommendations for the student.

Figure 5.14.
The QUILS Student Brief Report. This report provides a brief overview of an individual student’s screenings.

Student Detailed Report

This report provides all the information included in the Student Brief Report plus a detailed breakdown of the student’s answers and raw score to every item in the screener. This report enables inspection of the child’s responses in different areas and for different item types to help identify aspects of language comprehension where the student might benefit from additional support.

Figure 5.15.
A portion of a QUILS Student Detailed Report. This report recaptures the entire Student Brief Report as well as a detailed breakdown of the student's answers to every item in the screener.

Status Over Time Report

This report allows you to compare two screenings for the same student against the respective age norms for the dates of screening (e.g., if the student has a birthday in between the two screening dates, the report automatically uses the correct cut scores for the corresponding age range). It will provide an indication of the student’s language capability as demonstrated by the QUILS at two different points in time.

Figure 5.17.
The QUILS Status Over Time Report. This report allows you to compare two screenings for the same student against the respective age norms for the dates of screening.

Parent Report

The Parent Report provides an effective way to inform parents and other primary caregivers that their child has completed a screening with the QUILS. This report displays the student’s percentile ranks for the overall performance as well as performance in each area. It explains the QUILS using easy-to-understand language in order to be more accessible to families. The report also refers to the resources available through the QUILS web site in order to facilitate a conversation between teachers/administrators and parents.

Figure 5.18.
The QUILS Parent Report. This report provides an overview of a student’s individual screening, including overall performance, area scores, and a brief recommendation.

Group Reports

The Group Reports enable an overview of multiple students based on selected criteria, allowing an at-a-glance view of screening results or status information. The teacher may select any subset of active students in the account to include in Group Reports, and the reports will automatically include the last screening for each student selected within the previous 12-month period.

Group Status Report

The Group Status Report helps monitor which students have or have not completed the QUILS. For each student within the selected set, the Group Status Report will display the status of the most recent screening within the past 12 months: Complete, In progress, In progress—Expired, or Not Started.

Figure 5.19.
The QUILS Group Status Report. This report provides an overview of multiple students based on selected criteria, allowing an at-a-glance view of the screening results or status information.

Group Overview Report

The Group Overview Report provides a group snapshot of students’ performance in each area of the QUILS as well as overall. With this information, teachers can make planning decisions based on students’ language comprehension skills. The Group Overview Report displays a grid of students’ overall percentile ranks for each area score and for their overall score.

Figure 5.20.
The QUILS Group Overview Report. This report displays a graph of the students’ overall percentile ranks to view the status of all of the students.