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In this study of the predictive validity of the McCarthy Screening Test and the SEARCH, the two instruments were administered to all entering Kindergarten students in a midwestern school district. Students' scores on these tests were compared to their subsequent school progress and to their performance on the Metropolitan Achievement Tests Series at the end of first and second grades. Only three of the tests' combined 19 subtest and total scores achieved correlations with the Metropolitan that were statiscally significant and sufficiently large to warrant any positive conclusions about the tests' long-term predictive utility. In addition, there was no significant relationship between a student's SEARCH classification and that student's progress of placement in school. The data reported here do not support the predictive validity of SEARCH and are marginally supportive of the McCarthy Screening Test.

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The Predictive Validity of the McCarthy Screening Test and SEARCH

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