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 Care Services - a child placing agency that places children into an approved family foster home for a planned period of substitute care when their own families cannot or will not care for them. Substitute Family Care Programs are no longer licensed by the Department of Children & Family Services.