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Re: Dibels reading assess.
Posted by Cheryle on 3/25/05


    > On 2/25/04, Nancy wrote:
    >> Our school was just awarded a Reading First Grant. Dibels
    >> is one of the reading assessments approved by the state.
    >> Any info pro or con to help us make the decision if Dibels
    >> is the assess. to choose?

    I just found this website while looking for information on
    DIBELS so this is about a year late. This is
    in regards to the DIBELS test. I have been
    looking into this as research for a class. It
    seems that many districts across the country have
    adopted it as a benchmark for reading. However, I
    have found some areas that bother me. For
    example, the reading levels are actually higher
    than what they are supposed to be. I teach 3rd
    grade. We administer the Oral Reading Fluency
    test. When I noticed a pattern of high scores-low
    scores-high scores and so on in that pattern on
    the progress monitoring passages, I ran the
    passages through the Flesch Kincaid readability
    program on Word. The lowest level passage was up
    in the 4th grade level and another was a 7th
    grade level. My curiosity was up, so I went to
    the DIBELS official website and found some papers
    called Technical Reports. In one I found a chart
    that showed how they leveled these passages. They
    show several different leveling tools that they
    ran the passages through along with the results.
    In every one of them, the levels on the 3rd grade
    passages scored at least 4th grade (on a few) and
    all the way up to 10th grade. Only one of them
    showed the passages at late 2nd to 4th grade
    levels and surprise! That's the one they use.
    They also leveled all the passages, then
    assembled them in order by mixing up the levels
    (for example, easy, hard,medium) In that way,
    during a Benchmark session, your student would
    read an easy passage, a medium passage, and a
    hard passage. I'm not sure where the sense is in
    this since the program uses the middle score to
    set their benchmark. If we are testing them on
    reading fluency, why aren't the passages all
    consistently leveled at 3rd grade?

    I think DIBELS is potentially a good tool to
    assess students reading problems, but the way it
    is set up seems to set some students up for
    failure before they have begun.

     
     

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