ERIC Number: EJ1085151
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0741-9325
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Growth on Oral Reading Fluency Measures as a Function of Special Education and Measurement Sufficiency
Tindal, Gerald; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Stevens, Joseph J.; Alonzo, Julie
Remedial and Special Education, v37 n1 p28-40 Jan-Feb 2016
For 30 years, researchers have investigated oral reading fluency as a measure of growth in reading proficiency. Yet, little research has been done with these measures in the context of progress monitoring in Tier 2 systems. First, we document teachers' progress-monitoring decisions on type of passage (on-grade or off-grade) and how often to administer them. Then, we use a two-level hierarchical linear model to document the effects on both intercept and slope as a function of student special education status and measurement sufficiency. Across Grades 3 to 5, teachers diagnostically document student performance with different grade-level measures and also target a group of Tier 2 students to monitor early and systematically throughout the year. This latter group starts out much lower but has a significantly different slope than those for whom progress monitoring is more diagnostic and infrequent.
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Reading Skills, Measures (Individuals), Progress Monitoring, Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Special Education, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Demography, Reading Achievement, Student Evaluation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 3; Primary Education; Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324C110004