On-Demand Webinar for PATOSS Customers: PPA Scale Structure, Purpose, and Features
This 1-hour on-demand webinar will introduce participants to the structure, purpose, and features of the Phonological and Print Awareness Scale (PPA Scale, Williams, 2014). The PPA Scale is a research-based, standardized measure of early literacy skills; skills that have consistently demonstrated a strong, predictive relationship with future measures of reading and writing. Results can be reported in standard scores for ages 3 years, 6 months through 8 years, 11 months; by growth scores for monitoring progress; and through descriptive error analyses for planning intervention strategies.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this on-demand webinar, the learner will be able to:
- Explain how phonological and print awareness are key prerequisites for young children learning to read and write.
- Identify the strengths and needs of young children’s literacy skills using norm-referenced scoring, as well as criterion-referenced information.
- Monitor progress in acquiring early literacy skills using parallel forms and Rasch-based growth scores.
Registration Cost
Original Webinar Date
June 26, 2024
Webinar Duration
60 minutes
Webinar Completion Requirements
Participants will need to watch the video in its entirety before downloading the Certificate of Completion.
Presenter Bio(s)
Kathleen T. Williams, PhD
From 1968 to 1989, Dr. Williams was a classroom teacher, speech pathologist, and school psychologist. From 1989 to 2009, she was engaged in the development and publishing of assessment and curriculum materials. She also taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Williams is currently semiretired, providing continuing education workshops in the areas of reading, oral language, and vocabulary development.
She is the author of the Phonological and Print Awareness Scale, Building Early Literacy Skills: Phonological and Print Awareness Activities, the Expressive Vocabulary Test (co-normed with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test), the Reading Fluency Indicator, the Group Mathematics Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation, the Math-Level Indicator, the Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation, and the Reading-Level Indicator. She is the co-author of the OWLS™-II Reading Comprehension Scale with Dr. Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk.
Dr. Williams has a BS in audiology and speech sciences from Purdue University, an MEd in elementary education—reading from Valparaiso University, an MA in educational psychology, and a PhD in school psychology from Ball State University. A Nationally Certified School Psychologist (retired), she holds an Indiana Life License as an elementary education teacher.
Registration and Confirmation
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