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I am a high school reading intervention teacher and have been given the Degrees of Reading Power as a resource for measuring reading comprehension. How reliable is this test for measuring progress in reading comprehension? I've been told that it's little more than a measure of vocabulary, not comprehension.
Lisa I would say it as as accurate as any - which is to say that any test that does not include a critical thinking/writing component is going to be more of a vocabulary measurement than reading comprehension. However, when I used the DRP tests, the results were usually withing a few months to a year of where the student was successfully comprehending w...See More
Jul 15, 2015


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