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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a criterion referenced test; no normative data is presented. This is a collection of assessment tools, and the skills measured depend on the assessment given.  Checklists for writing and oral language competence are also provided, as are summary sheets for organizing assessment information. WEB SITE: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Bader-Reading-Language-Inventory/9780135005538.page

Raw scores can be converted into national stanines, normal curve equivalents (NCEs), national percentile ranks, grade equivalents, and extended scale scores. About 65,000 students from all part of the country from both public and private schools were tested in teh fall of 1998 and spring of 1999  for the Fourth Edition. Additional score interpretation is [...]

Reading readiness is one part of this test — it also tests for arithmetic readiness. WEB SITE: http://www.psych-edpublications.com/readiness.htm#tkfgrs

There are 40 items in this test — on each item, the experimenter says a word, the child repeats the word, and then the child says the word again, omitting a specified sound (a phoneme, phoneme cluster, or syllable).  In all but three of the items, when the specified sound is omitted, the new word [...]