Can I use the Selector Module to determine if the student is within normal limits and whether the student requires administration of the full assessment?
SPELL 2 does not provide a normative measure of a student’s spelling skills and cannot be used to determine if a student’s spelling ability is within normal limits. The domain of English spelling is massive, which makes it impractical to sample every potential orthographic pattern. The Selector Module probes the student’s spelling of various spelling patterns to determine the most appropriate patterns (i.e., the most appropriate level of SPELL 2) to use to fully assess in an individual student. Because spelling development is an ongoing process, all individuals with some amount of misspellings could benefit from a full SPELL 2 assessment. It is left to the examiner’s discretion to determine whether to invest the time required for completion of a full SPELL 2 assessment.
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