DIBELS is meant to be a progress monitoring tool to assess the
effectiveness of a specific intervention being used with a certain
student. It is not meant to be a diagnostic assessment for all
students. When used with Tier II and III students regularly to simply
monitor fluency gains or lack thereof, it can be very useful to make
decisions about the effectiveness of the intervention used with the
student.
It has gotten a lot of bad press because of its misuse by teachers who
were told to use it without the proper training. It fits all of the
components for a progress monitoring tool according to the RTI
guidelines.
Since comprehension is indirectly related to fluency it can be a
general indicator of general comprehension for most children. However,
just counting the words in a retell does not give you the in depth
comprehension information you need to inform instruction, it is just an
indicator of a possible problem. I have always used some form of IRI
to really get to the meat of what is going on with a child's
comprehension after noting that the DIBELS fluency score was below the
benchmark guidelines. If you have a child that can read fluently with
no comprehension (word caller), the DIBELS fluency assessment will not
be a good measure of comprehension progress.
I would suggest you investigate the Vanderbilt website (Doug and Lynn
Fuchs) to review all of the background information so you can use the
DIBELS tools for which they were intended. n Think of the DIBELS
assessment as a thermometer to just measure reading health, not a
diagnostic assessment used to plan instruction.
Good Luck,
Marianne
-----Original Message-----
From: Kendra Carroll <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 2:15 pm
Subject: [MOSAIC] DIBEL
Our system has just chosen to assess using DIBELS. For those of you who
use it, which students are you assessing? Do you use a different method
to assess comprehension, if so, what? Thanks for your input!!
Kendra Carroll
Elementary Teacher Coach
Sandy Ridge Elementary School: Amostown Rd; Sandy Ridge, NC 27046
Phone: 336 871-2400 Fax 336 871-2025
Pine Hall Elementary School: 1400 Pine Hall Road; Pine Hall, North
Carolina 27042
Phone: 336 427-3689 Fax: 336 427-4944
Germanton Elementary School: 6085 NC 8 Hwy S; Germanton, NC 27019
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