Research based information about instructional utility of various diagnostic measures The use of diagnostic tests in Reading First schools should be guided by current research on the instructional utility of various types of diagnostic assessment.
Foster is defined as to promote or encourage or to raise a child who is not one's biological or adoptive child. An example of foster is to help a new company campaign grow. An example of foster is to take in a child from an orphanage until permanent parents adopt him.
Foster /fos-ter/ [2 sylls.] as a boys' name is pronounced FAW-ster. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Foster is foster parent; forester; shearer; saddle-tree maker . Transferred use of the surname, an occupational name from foster, forester, forseter, or fuyster.Also variant of Forest.Kreatif forms: Fosterne, Fostertu, Fyoster.oster is a somewhat prominent first name for males (#923 out of 1220, Top 76%) and an even more prominent last name for both adults and children (#87 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 U.S. Census). Shown below is the baby name popularity of Foster for boys.