Category Archives: Reading tests

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 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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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 Analysis and Prescription System (RAPS)

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced assessment; no normative data is provided. This is a computer-based assessment that allows students to be tested on-line.  The computer can then generate reports for student, classroom, or school.  The skills assessed are generally tested across different levels of difficulty ranging from Level 1 (single sounds or phonemes in isolation) to [...]

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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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Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening – 1-3

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced assessment; no normative data is provided.  This assessment is given to students across the state of Virginia every year, and because of this, item and subtest analyses can be conducted every year on many thousands of kindergarten students (over 500,000 students at the time of this writing).  Reliability and validity measures [...]

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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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