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McKenna, Michael C.; Walpole, Sharon; Jang, Bong Gee – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2017
This study investigated the reliability and validity of Part 1 of the Informal Decoding Inventory (IDI), a free diagnostic assessment used to plan Tier 2 intervention for first graders with decoding deficits. Part 1 addresses single-syllable words and consists of five subtests that progress in difficulty and that contain real word and pseudoword…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Decoding (Reading), Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Homan, Susan P.; Klesius, Janell P. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Confirms previous findings that the word recognition criterion for instructional reading level should be set at about 95 percent for students reading at grade levels one through six. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Research, Test Reliability
Fuchs, Lynn; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to explore the reliability and validity of three prominent procedures used in informal reading inventories (IRIs): (1) choosing a 95% word recognition accuracy standard for determining student instructional level, (2) arbitrarily selecting a passage to represent the difficulty level of a basal reader, and (3) employing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Pikulski, John J., Ed.; Shanahan, Timothy, Ed. – 1982
The eight articles in this compilation provide various approaches and techniques for use by classroom teachers in the informal evaluation of student reading performance. The first article outlines the many purposes for which informal measures may be used and briefly describes the various forms such measures may take, while the second focuses on…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education