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Park, Yujeong; Martin, Melissa; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry M. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
To preliminarily validate the Monitoring Instructional Responsiveness-Reading (MIR-R) for use in low-income settings, data were collected from 147 students from first through fifth grades who were primarily from low-income families. Data from three MIR-R components (Total Words Read, Ideas Attempted, Ideas Correct) and three related dependent…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Low Income Students
Bongle, Kerri A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This is a correlational study of two assessments used in education. The two assessments, Renaissance Learning's STAR Reading and Fountas and Pinnell's Benchmark Assessment System, were analyzed using data collected from third grade students to see if there was a significant correlation. The data collected was the scaled score from STAR Reading…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Benchmarking, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Dahlke, Katie; Yang, Rui; Martínez, Carmen; Chavez, Suzette; Martin, Alejandra; Hawkinson, Laura; Shields, Joseph; Garland, Marshall; Carle, Jill – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
The New Mexico Public Education Department developed the Kindergarten Observation Tool (KOT) as a multidimensional observational measure of students' knowledge and skills at kindergarten entry. The primary purpose of the KOT is to inform instruction, so that kindergarten teachers can use the information about their students' knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Observation, Measures (Individuals), Kindergarten
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Barth, Amy E.; Stuebing, Karla K.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Cirino, Paul T.; Romain, Melissa; Francis, David; Vaughn, Sharon – Reading Psychology, 2012
We evaluated the reliability and validity of two oral reading fluency scores for 1-minute equated passages: median score and mean score. These scores were calculated from measures of reading fluency administered up to five times over the school year to students in grades six to eight (n = 1,317). Both scores were highly reliable with strong…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Scores
Alonzo, Julie; Gonzalez, Magaly; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2013
In this study, we describe two studies used to select appropriate assessments to measure phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, and fluency in the Spanish language for students receiving literacy instruction in Spanish. We first describe two studies in which we use linear regression and correlations to examine the appropriateness of different…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Spanish, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabets