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Xin Qiao; Akihito Kamata; Cornelis Potgieter – Grantee Submission, 2024
Oral reading fluency (ORF) assessments are commonly used to screen at-risk readers and evaluate interventions' effectiveness as curriculum-based measurements. Similar to the standard practice in item response theory (IRT), calibrated passage parameter estimates are currently used as if they were population values in model-based ORF scoring.…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Error Patterns, Scoring
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Courtenay A. Barrett; Lindy J. Johnson; Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Amanda M. VanDerHeyden – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
U.S. elementary schools administer reading screeners to identify students in need of remedial instruction. However, the administration of additional assessments comes with a cost. It is unclear the extent to which multiple types of reading screeners warrant the increase in resources that could be used for instruction. This study compared…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Costs, Accuracy
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Brenda Aromu Wawire; Adrienne Elissa Barnes-Story; Xinya Liang; Benjamin Piper – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Many children living in linguistically diverse low- and middle-income countries learn to read and write in multiple languages. Recent research provides implications for effective reading instruction with multilingual learners (e.g., Hall et al. in New Dir Child Adolesc Dev 166:145-189, 2019). However, there is limited empirical evidence on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students
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Kristen D. Beach; Erin K. Washburn – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Third-grade reading proficiency predicts later reading achievement and high school graduation, yet third-graders from historically marginalized groups experience differential learning opportunities and sometimes perform poorly in reading. Similar to the effects of summer learning loss, lost instructional opportunities due to COVID-19 have…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Grade 3
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Ethan R. Van Norman; David A. Klingbeil; Kristen Truman; Peter M. Nelson; David C. Parker – Grantee Submission, 2024
The transition from sounding out unfamiliar words to effortlessly reading connected text does not occur all at once nor at the same rate for students. The purpose of this study was to explore the accuracy of three decision rules (data point, median, and trend line) applied to progress monitoring outcomes of alphabetic principle (nonsense word…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Outcomes of Education, Reading Rate, Word Recognition
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Ethan R. Van Norman; David A. Klingbeil; Kirsten Truman; Peter M. Nelson; David C. Parker – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
The transition from sounding out unfamiliar words to effortlessly reading connected text does not occur all at once or at the same rate for students. The purpose of this study was to explore the accuracy of three decision rules (data point, median, and trend line) applied to progress monitoring outcomes of alphabetic principle (nonsense word…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Outcomes of Education, Reading Rate, Word Recognition