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Abstract
The Technical Manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Taylor, and McGee, 2010) contains norm tables for both raw and scale scores for each developmental domain that are based on a cross-sectional research design in the sense that they establish expected scores for three month age bands using only the fall assessment checkpoint. The expected growth for individual children can be inferred from these tables by tracking a child across the age bands as the child gets older. Given that the measure has been in use for several complete academic years since those tables were created, and users have gained more experience and training, it is important to extend the findings of that report. This report provides a supplement to those tables by tracking groups of children across a single academic year to directly observe their growth and development using a longitudinal design.