A FANTASTIC book is Bess Altwerger's Reading Fluency - Process, Practice, and Policy!! Anyone using DIBELS needs to read it, because the research and anlysis in this book are amazing. I suspect more books like this will come out and anyone having anything to do with policy needs to read each and every one of them. It's published by Heinemann. Bev
> To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:32:32 -0400> From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] STAR> > IRA and other reputable > educational organizations strongly discourage the use of reading levels as > ways to report on achievement...for this reason among others. I think the > main reason we use them is because they seem to be the easiest for teachers > and parents to understand, but that is not necessarily the case. The simple > explanation I give is this. When a fifth grader scores at the 12th grade > level on something like star, it does not mean he is reading at a 12th grade > level, it means if a 12th grader took this test, he would get a score close > to this. (I think I am pretty close on this explanation, but would welcome > further clarification. It is always an issue.) > > Funny this has come up > today. I was asked by a first grade teacher to look at a dibels fluency prog. > monitoring chart of a middle of the road reader...long story short... I ended > up looking at the dibels website for information on how they determine > reading levels of passages. (They rely mostly on the Spache readability > formula.) I read the research on this on the website,and the dibels people > used about 7 - 8 different formulas, and the first grade passages ranged from > early first to fourth.?You can pretty much choose a readability level to fit > your needs, it seems!! > > So, I agree...no accurate reading level!> > Cathy> > K-5> DE> > > _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/ _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
