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.
âº used to refer to someone or something connected with the care of children, usually for a limited time, by someone who is not the child's legal parent: a foster care/home/child/mother. The neglected child was removed from her home and placed with a foster family.