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McAlenney, Athena Lentini; Coyne, Michael D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2011
Accurate identification of at-risk kindergarten and 1st-grade students through early reading screening is an essential element of responsiveness to intervention models of reading instruction. The authors consider predictive validity and classification accuracy of early reading screening assessments with attention to sensitivity and specificity.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Reading, Predictive Validity, At Risk Students
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Compton, Donald L. – Exceptional Children, 2004
This study contrasts the validity of 2 early reading curriculum-based measurement (CBM) measures: word identification fluency and nonsense word fluency. At-risk children (n = 151) were assessed (a) on criterion reading measures in the fall and spring of first grade and (b) on the 2 CBM measures each week for 7 weeks and twice weekly for an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Early Reading, Identification, Curriculum Based Assessment
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Denton, Carolyn A.; Ciancio, Dennis J.; Fletcher, Jack M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This study evaluated the validity, reliability, and utility of five of the six subtests of Clay's (2002) Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (OS), including Letter Identification, Word Reading, Writing Vocabulary, Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words, and Text Reading. In addition to a review of studies providing assessment of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Grade 1, Early Reading, Psychometrics