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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 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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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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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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Teaching Beginning Readers: Linking Assessment and Instruction

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced assessment — no normative data is provided. This book provides a wealth of high-quality activities that teachers can use to improve early reading skills.

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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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Basic Reading Inventory

By duncwilson | Published: May 21, 2011

This is a criterion-referenced collection of assessments.  No normative or validation information is provided. This collection of assessments is primarily designed to help teachers identify each student’s independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.  Guides are provided to help teachers determine each child’s different reading levels.  Some of the reading passages are equivalent in difficulty, so [...]

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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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