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Download full textElaine Allensworth; Alex Gordon; Christopher Young – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
There is considerable variability in the literacy assessments taken in Kindergarten through second grade, across schools and between multilingual learners and other students, and within students over time. This makes it difficult to study changes in students' acquisition of ELA skills in these formative years, or to evaluate policies and practices…
Descriptors: Literacy, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
An Analysis of the Text Complexity of Leveled Passages in Four Popular Classroom Reading Assessments
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Direct linkToyama, Yukie; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David – Educational Assessment, 2017
This study investigated the complexity of leveled passages used in four classroom reading assessments. A total of 167 passages leveled for Grades 1-6 from these assessments were analyzed using four analytical tools of text complexity. More traditional, two-factor measures of text complexity found a general trend of fairly consistent across-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Skills, Student Evaluation, Difficulty Level
McConnell, Scott; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha – AERA Open, 2016
This study evaluated the extent to which existing measures met standards for a continuous suite of general outcome measures (GOMs) assessing children's early literacy from preschool through early elementary school. The study assessed 316 children from age 3 years (2 years prekindergarten) through Grade 2, with 8 to 10 measures of language,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
Wheeler, Courtney E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study examined the stability (i.e., 4-month and 12-month test-retest reliability) of six selected school-based indices of adequate reading progress. The total sampling frame included between 3970 and 5655 schools depending on the index and research question. Each school had at least 40 second-grade students that had complete Oral…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, School Effectiveness
Petscher, Yaacov; Kim, Young-Suk; Foorman, Barbara R. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2011
As schools implement response to intervention to identify and serve students with learning difficulties, it is critical for educators to know how to evaluate screening measures. In the present study, "Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills" Oral Reading Fluency was used to compare the differential decisions that might occur in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Problems, Intervention, Reading Fluency
Gutierrez, Gabriel – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The current study examined the quality of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) across a sample of second-grade English Language (EL) learners with varying degrees of English proficiency (e.g., students with beginning, early intermediate, intermediate, early advanced, and advanced levels). DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Phonics, Phonological Awareness
