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Morrison D, Mantzicopoulos P, Stone E. Screening for reading problems: The utility of SEARCH. Ann Dyslexia. 1988;38(1):179-92doi: 10.1007/BF02648255.
Morrison, D., Mantzicopoulos, P., & Stone, E. (1988). Screening for reading problems: The utility of SEARCH. Annals of dyslexia, 38(1), 179-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648255
Morrison, D, et al. "Screening for reading problems: The utility of SEARCH." Annals of dyslexia vol. 38,1 (1988): 179-92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648255
Morrison D, Mantzicopoulos P, Stone E. Screening for reading problems: The utility of SEARCH. Ann Dyslexia. 1988 Jan;38(1):179-92. doi: 10.1007/BF02648255. PMID: 24235040.
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Ann Dyslexia. 1988 Jan;38(1):179-92. doi: 10.1007/BF02648255.

Screening for reading problems: The utility of SEARCH.

Annals of dyslexia

D Morrison, P Mantzicopoulos, E Stone

Affiliations

  1. University of California, San Francisco.

PMID: 24235040 DOI: 10.1007/BF02648255

Abstract

To evaluate the accuracy of SEARCH as a screen for identifying children at risk for developing learning problems, 1107 kindergarten children were evaluated with SEARCH and 284 (26 percent) were classified as at risk. At-risk children were of average intelligence and SEARCH scores were significantly correlated with sequential and simultaneous information processing skills. Children whose group preacademic achievement scores were at or below the third stanine at the end of kindergarten were classified as having inadequate skills for learning how to read; those scoring above the third stanine formed the adequate skills group. Using this criterion, SEARCH predicted children who had adequate or inadequate preacademic reading skills with 77 percent accuracy. However, approximately half of the children identified as at risk by SEARCH performed adequately. A reading test was individually administered to a group of at-risk children at the end of first (N=49) and second (N=35) grade. Of those children identified at risk by SEARCH at kindergarten, 39 percent at first grade and 66 percent at second grade performed at grade level. Fewer children from the upper SES were identified by SEARCH as being at risk.

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