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Test of Word Reading Efficiency

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Raw scores can be converted into percentiles, standard scores, and age- and grade-equivalent scores.  Normed on a representative nationwide sample of more than 1,500 students.  Reliability coefficients were in the .85 to .90 range, and validity measures are available from the publisher. List reading fluency has been found to be highly correlated with passage-reading fluency. [...]

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Test of Reading Comprehension

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

The reading directions of schoolwork literacy assessment subtest requires that the student demonstrate some competence in specific skills — in addition to being able to read the instructions, the child must be able to accomplish each task such as: “In each box, underline the words that go together,” and “draw a line under the little [...]

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Test of Early Reading Ability

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Raw scores can be converted into standard scores, and percentiles.  This assessment tool was normed on national sample of 1,454 children in 15 states as a phonics test.  Reliability measures are in the .90 range, and validity measures, assessed using the Basic School Skills Inventory, were found to be in the .55 range. Examiners no [...]

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STAR Reading Computer-Adaptive Reading Test

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Norm-referenced. Norming sample included a nationally representative mix of approximately 30,000 students from 269 schools, representing 47 states across the U.S. Students receive  scaled scores (SS), grade equivalent (GE) instructional reading level (IRL), percentile rank (PR), normal curve equivalent (NCE), zone of proximal development (ZPD), and diagnostic codes. The STAR Reading test yields a variety [...]

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Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

COGNITIVE ELEMENTS SUPPORTED: – Reading Comprehension – Language Comprehension – Decoding – Cipher Knowledge – Letter Knowledge – Concepts About Print – Semantics (Vocabulary and Morphology) – Phonological Awareness SUBTESTS AND SKILLS ASSESSED: <strong>Letter Recognition (Grades K, 1)</strong> — Student must identify letters of the alphabet by name. <br ><br ><strong>Concepts of Print (Grades K, [...]

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Reading Diagnostic Tests

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Norms for Fall and Spring are provided.  Raw scores can be converted into percentile ranks, stanines, grade equivalent scores, scaled scores, and normal curve equivalent (NCE) reading tests scores.  Also content cluster performance indicators are available.  This assessment was standardized and normed using a very large, nation-wide, representative sample of students.  Test-retest and alternate form [...]

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Ready to Learn – A Dyslexia Screener

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is both a criterion-referenced and norm-referenced collection of assessments.  Raw scores are compared against a criterion for success, and are described categorically — “red” being of greatest concern for dyslexia, “green” being of least concern.  Growth norms are also provided to monitor the growth of students over time (relative to a normed sample).  Internal [...]

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Assessment of Literacy and Language

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

SUBTESTS AND SKILLS ASSESSED: Basic Concepts — In this literacy assessment the student must point to a picture that is most similar to a verbal description (e.g. “Point to the big tree”). Receptive Vocabulary — Student must point to a picture that best represents a dictated word.  Words increase in difficulty. Parallel Sentence Production — [...]

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Pre-Reading Inventory of Phonological Awareness (PIPA)

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Raw scores can be converted into percentile ranges which can then be used to categorize the student’s achievement at Emerging/Below Basic, Basic, or Proficient range of development. Norms were based on representative sample (450) of the U.S. population of children aged 4 -6 years old. Reliability for each subtest and age were in the .80 [...]

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Rigby Reads (Reading Evaluation and Diagnostic System)

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Assessments are divided into a “diagnostic test” and an “evaluation test” at each level (except for “beginning reader” which is only a diagnostic.  Students who perform well below grade level on the “evaluation test” could be further assessed using the the “diagnostic test.”  Grading software is available from the publisher.  The Rigby Reads assessments are [...]

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