Category Archives: Reading comprehensions

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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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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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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Qualitative Reading Inventory

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Raw scores can be converted into reading level scores.  Inter-rater reliability measures were found to be in the .98 range; alternate form reliability measures were in the .90 range.  Criterion-related validity was assessed using the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (revised). This is an informal reading inventory designed to assess reading ability at emergent through middle [...]

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Reading Inventory for the Classroom (RIC) & Tutorial Audiotape Package

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced assessment — no normative data is provided. The book provides score sheets that the teacher completes on each student as they administer the inventory. The inventory begins with an Interest/Attitude interview one for  primary-level and  one for upper-level students. The assessment portion of the inventory is divided into five forms: A, [...]

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Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement,

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Raw scores are converted to stanines. Norms and reliability measures were established on each subtest separately and are summarized in the book. This book is broken into two parts — the first part instructs teachers on how to observe and make sense of the reading behavior of children as they read aloud.  The second part [...]

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Brigance Diagnostic Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Scores are presented as raw scores, percentiles, grade-equivalent scores, and age-equivalent scores.  Criterion-referenced categories are also provided to give a categorical description of the student’s performance.  This assessment battery was standardized on a representative nationwide sample of 1,121 children.  Test-retest reliability in the lower grades was in the .85 range, and the inter-rater reliability, alternative [...]

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Diagnostic Assessments of Reading

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Print Awareness — Student must demonstrate understanding of basic concepts about print (e.g. distinguishes letters from words). Rhyming — Student determines whether or not a pair of given words rhyme. Segmenting Words — Student must tap once for each syllable in a word. Identifying Initial Consonant Sounds — Student must repeat the first phoneme (sound) [...]

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