Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)

TILLS Practice Kit

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Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)

TILLS Examiner’s Practice Workbook

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Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)

TILLS Examiner Record Forms (3)

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TILLS Quick Start Guide

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TILLS Downloads & Instructor PowerPoint Presentation

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These convenient Practice Kits include the materials needed for training and practice sessions with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™), a test valid and reliable for assessing oral and written language skills in students ages 6 —18 years. The TILLS™ Practice Kit gives you and your trainees access to essential materials for learning about TILLS and, in the process, about standardized testing in general.

The TILLS Practice Kits are ideal for use in preservice higher education courses and inservice trainings. They can help you introduce TILLS to aspiring or experienced professionals —and give them the practice they need to use TILLS and perform individualized assessment with confidence in future work settings.

The TILLS Practice Kits are used to:

Give trainees a complete overview of TILLS. Introduce the TILLS subtests and the three purposes of the assessment: identifying language /literacy disorders, documenting relative strengths and weaknesses, and tracking changes over time.
Familiarize trainees with the 15 TILLS subtests. With the included Examiner’s Practice Workbook, TILLS trainees will work through practice exercises for each subtest that prepare them for successful administration of the TILLS and other standardized tests.
Provide concrete examples of standardized testing principles. Beyond testing with TILLS, the materials of the Practice Kit can be used to emphasize assessment principles in general, such as using start rules, establishing basals and ceilings, and using standardized instruction and scoring procedures with fidelity.
Provide scoring practice. Using the Examiner’s Practice Workbook and downloadable audio files, TILLS trainees will practice scoring and interpreting all subtests, with extra instructional material and practice examples for the Written Expression subtest.

With this thorough introduction to a landmark language and literacy assessment, pre- and inservice professionals will be ready to use TILLS to enhance their future work in schools, clinics, and private practice.

KIT COMPONENTS

Note: Trainees each should purchase a Practice Kit for use in their coursework or TILLS training session. Instructors should have their own Practice Kit, and they may request an Examiner’s Manual (as it is not included in the Practice Kit).

Examiner’s Practice Workbook: More than 100 pages of exercises on subtest administration, scoring TILLS, and interpreting results, plus a tutorial to help you master T-unit division.

Practice Kit Downloads: The audio files and normative data tables needed to complete the scoring of the exercises in the Examiner’s Practice Workbook (downloaded with a special code that is provided to the purchaser).

Examiner Record Form (pack of 3): Two forms to work through the exercises in the Workbook for students of different ages, plus an extra copy of the form for additional practice.

Quick Start Guide: A laminated trifold quick-reference guide to administration and scoring, perfect to take with you when using TILLS on the job and as a quick reference for trainees.

Instructor PowerPoint Presentation: Ideal for use in courses and trainings, this slide presentation will support your instruction on the TILLS overview, the 15 TILLS subtests, examples of standardized testing principles, and TILLS scoring.

Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) <show description>

Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills (TILLS) is the reliable, valid assessment professionals need to test oral and written language skills in students ages 6 - 18 years. TILLS is a comprehensive, norm-referenced test that has been standardized for three purposes:

To identify language/literacy disorders
To document patterns of relative strengths and weaknesses
To track changes in language and literacy skills over time

To achieve these purposes, TILLS is constructed to allow you to derive scores for identifying, tracking, and profiling a student’s strengths and weaknesses and interpreting the results to support decisions about what to do next.

15 Extensively Researched Subtests

The TILLS assessment is all professionals need to capture the complete picture of students’ oral and written language skills. TILLS is composed of 15 subtests that allow examiners to assess and compare students’ language-literacy skills at both the sound/word level and the sentence/discourse level across the four oral and written modalities—listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Curriculum Relevant

TILLS measures integrated language-literacy abilities that reflect the complex language and literacy demands of the general education curriculum.

Backed By Unparalleled Data

Each TILLS subtest has been fine-tuned to meet strong psychometric standards using scientific evidence gathered in numerous pilot studies and field trials, a national beta trial, and a standardization study with more than 1200 children and adolescents.

Strong Specificity and Sensitivity

TILLS tested both sensitivity and specificity across the full age range covered by the test. In the manual, diagnostic accuracy data are broken down into nine different “age bands” meaningful to the development of language and literacy skills. Sensitivity ranges from 81% to 97%, and specificity ranges from 81% to 100%.

Streamlined Assessment

Professionals can administer the entire test, single subtests, or combinations of subtests in one or more sessions. Comprehensive assessment can typically be administered in 90 minutes or less.

Useful for a Wide Range of Students

TILLS is ideal for evaluating students:

suspected of having a primary language impairment, also called specific language impairment
suspected of having a learning disability, reading disability, or dyslexia
known to have an existing condition associated with difficulties in spoken and written language (such as deaf or hard of hearing, autism spectrum disorder, or intellectual disability)
struggling with language and literacy comprehension and social communication skills (such as social communication disorder)

Here’s how to use the TILLS Examiner’s Kit to screen for and diagnose language and literacy disorders, including dyslexia:

First, you’ll identify at-risk students with the evidence based Student Language Scale (SLS), a quick and easy one-page, 12-question screener filled out by the teacher, parent, and student. Complete in less than five minutes, the SLS helps you:

Screen for language/literacy disorders by gathering teachers’ and parents’ ratings of students.
Gather input about a struggling student’s strengths and needs from multiple sources—a key requirement of IDEA.
Enhance home–school communication by gaining new insight into student performance, whether or not there are concerns.

After the SLS helps you identify children at risk for a language/literacy disorder, use TILLS for diagnosis. Here’s how:

Administer all 15 TILLS subtests.
Complete the first page of the Examiner’s Record Form, a chart that helps you score the subtests, compare the scores to those of the student’s same-age peers, and compare the sound/ word composite score to the sentence discourse composite score.
Complete the Identification Chart to determine if the student has a disorder.
Complete the Profile Chart for an at-a-glance, big-picture look at the student’s current language and literacy skills.

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