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Patrick Kennedy; Brian Gearin; Katherine Bromley; Gina Biancarosa – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Dyslexia is a specific reading disability characterized by word recognition difficulties that can qualify a student for special education services under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (IDEA; 2004; Yudin, 2015). As of 2024, 49 US states have legislation defining dyslexia and enumerating for schools…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Dyslexia, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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David A. Klingbeil; Ethan R. Van Norman; Peter M. Nelson; David C. Parker; Patrick Kaiser; Monica L. Vidal; Angelos Ntais; Zhuanghan Dong; Kirsten Truman – Grantee Submission, 2024
Text reading fluency (TRF) is a common reading intervention target in second and third grade. TRF requires the integration of several skills that result in several pathways to dysfluent reading. However, when applying the drill-down approach to intervention targeting, practitioners are guided to consider students' rate and accuracy when reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Jonie B. Welland; Emily L. Singell; Katherine A. Graves; Matthew K. Burns – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Acadience Reading Diagnostic: Comprehension, Fluency, and Oral Language Assessment (CFOL) is an individually administered diagnostic assessment published by Acadience Learning for students in kindergarten through sixth grades. The measure purportedly provides diagnostic information in story coherence/text structure, listening and reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
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Lou Champagne; Dima Safi; Bruno Gauthier – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The Alouette-R (2005) by Lefavrais is one of the most widely used tools to assess reading skills in French. However, this instrument does not have normative data specific to the French-speaking population of Quebec, Canada. Aims: The validity of an assessment being strongly compromised when using inappropriate norms, the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, French Canadians, French
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Landry, Lindsey N.; Keller-Margulis, Milena; Matta, Michael; Kim, Hanjoe; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Schanding, G. Thomas, Jr. – School Psychology Review, 2022
Acadience Reading (AR) is a screener for early detection of reading problems in elementary students. Limited research exists, however, on its technical adequacy for evaluation of English Learners (ELs). In this study, we tested the long-term predictive validity and diagnostic accuracies of AR and examined the differences between native…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Reading Difficulties, Identification
Silverman, Rebecca D.; McNeish, Daniel; Speece, Deborah L.; Ritchey, Kristin D. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
The present study investigated the identification of end of first grade (n = 125) and end of third grade (n = 77) reading comprehension difficulties using beginning of first grade decoding-related and language-related predictors. Reading comprehension was defined using a composite of three standardized reading comprehension measures. Students at…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Reading Difficulties, Reading Diagnosis, Decoding (Reading)