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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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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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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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Fluency: Strategies & Assessments (2nd Edition)

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced assessment.  Tables for appropriate reading rates for each grade are provided, but there is no normative data for the specific passages provided in this assessment.This book provides a wealth of high-quality activities that teachers can use to improve reading fluency. WEB SITE: http://www.kendallhunt.com

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Criterion Test of Basic Reading (CTOBS-2)

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion referenced assessment.  No normative data is provided.  Recommended to be used as a pre and post test – test results are intended to be used to show individual growth. Results are tabulated into 3 Levels:  Mastery Level (90-100%) Instructional Level (50-89%) and Frustration Level (0-49%).  The CTOBS-2 also contains a basic [...]

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Phonemic Awareness in Young Children

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This book is primarily devoted to helping teachers develop a phonemic awareness classroom curriculum.  Activities that support phonemic awareness are described, and the book even provides a suggested schedule for when activities should be introduced.  The last chapter of the book is devoted to assessing phonological awareness, and each subtest assesses a different aspect of [...]

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Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

Scores are given as percent correct — guidelines simply state that children with high scores should be considered to be phonemically aware, and children with low scores need phonemic awareness instruction.  Reliability measures were found to be above .85; predictive validity was determined by assessing reading achievement of students in a longitudinal study (7 years) [...]

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Abecedarian Reading Assessment

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This assessment is available for free download (in PDF format) from http://www.balancedreading.com/assessment/.  The authors recommend using certain subtests as a screen for all students, and using the rest of the subtests to more carefully examine students who did not do well on the screen.  This assessment is appropriate for kindergarten and beginning-of-year 1st grade. WEB [...]

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