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Direct linkPatrick 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
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
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
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
Brasher, Casey F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Reading comprehension assessments often lack instructional utility because they do not accurately pinpoint why a student has difficulty. The varying formats, directions, and response requirements of comprehension assessments lead to differential measurement of underlying skills and contribute to noted amounts of unshared variance among tests. Maze…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Grade 4, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Tarar, Jessica M.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Dickens, Rachel H. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The TOWRE-2 was developed to provide an efficient measure of two essential wordlevel reading skills, sight word reading and phonetic decoding skills. The Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) subtest assesses the number of real words that an individual can read from a vertical list within 45 s. This subtest is designed to measure the size of an individual's…
Descriptors: Word Study Skills, Sight Method, Phonetics, Decoding (Reading)
Snowling, Margaret; Dawes, Piers; Nash, Hannah; Hulme, Charles – Dyslexia, 2012
Background: There is an increased prevalence of reading and related difficulties in children of dyslexic parents. In order to understand the causes of these difficulties, it is important to quantify the risk factors passed from parents to their offspring. Method: 417 adults completed a protocol comprising a 15-item questionnaire rating reading and…
Descriptors: Self Disclosure (Individuals), Questionnaires, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedSchell, Leo M.; Jennings, Robert E. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Finds that the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty is difficult to administer and interpret, takes considerable time to give, and is not comprehensive. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
McCall, Rozanne A.; McCall, Robert B. – J Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedFlood, James; Lapp, Diane – Language Arts, 1978
Questions designed to measure inferential reading comprehension often measure prior knowledge and experience instead. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
Comparison of the Slosson Intelligence Test and WISC Scores of Subjects Referred to a Reading Clinic
Peer reviewedJerrolds, Bob W.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
The findings of this investigation show that the SIT and WISC are measuring the same things to a statistically significant degree. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Intelligence Tests, Reading Centers, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedManzo, Anthony V.; Casale, Ula Price – Reading Psychology, 1983
Describes a reading battery that was assembled to advance study and definitions of reading maturity. Factor analysis shows the battery to have greater implicit construct similarity to a popular taxonomy and diagnostic system than conventional measures typically address. (FL)
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research, Reading Tests
PDF pending restorationStallman, Anne C.; Pearson, P. David – 1990
This report reviews and evaluates the tradition of assessing early literacy with formal tests. It begins with a historical account of the readiness movement, focusing on the development of formal measures of early literacy and tracing the development of the movement into the 1980s. Next, the paper analyzes in depth tests that are currently…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Primary Education
The Pre-Reading Skills Battery; and Rationale for and Description of the Pre-Reading Skills Battery.
Download full textCenter for Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1971
The Pre-Reading Skills Battery is a group-administered diagnostic battery measuring skills considered to be prerequisite to beginning reading instruction. Three major areas of skills are included: language, visual perception, and auditory perception. Within each of these three areas several skills are tested through two or three sub-tests. In some…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1971
A number of criticisms have been made of currently available standardized pre-reading test materials in terms of their appropriateness for administration to urban children, their standardization, their content, and their required testing procedures. This new pre-reading skills battery has been designed as an urban oriented testing instrument to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Reading Diagnosis
