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The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (opens in a new window) and the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE) (opens in a new window) are two examples of formal tests used by some schools. Informal tests are more flexible and provide a holistic view of a student’s reading. More @Wikipedia
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- Screening and Assessment - Reading RocketsThe Iowa Test of Basic Skills (opens in a new window) and the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE) (opens in a new window) are two examples of formal tests used by some schools. Informal tests are more flexible and provide a holistic view of a student’s reading.
- Dyslexia in the Schools: Assessment and IdentificationMeasuring reading rate should encompass consideration of both single-word reading automaticity (e.g., Test of Word Reading Efficiency, 2nd ed.; Torgeson, Rashotte, & Wagner, 2012) and reading speed in connected text (e.g., Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement Sentence Reading Fluency; Schrank, Mather, & McGrew, 2014a).
- Assessment: Introduction - Reading RocketsGroup-administered assessments of students’ silent reading tend to miss many key components of reading. When you are giving an assessment, you should try to provide a comfortable, non-distracting testing environment for the student, with the rest of the class engaged in another task and working quietly.
- Understanding and Assessing Fluency | Reading RocketsTo measure the quality of a student’s reading prosody, some educators rely on the four-level scale first developed for the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading (Daane, Campbell, Grigg, Goodman, and Oranje, 2005).
- Should We Test Reading or DIBELS? - Reading RocketsA nonsense word test, for instance, isn’t trying to find out if kids can read nonsense words (but how well they can decode any words). A fluency test is not about speed reading, but about being able to read the text so that it sounds like language. A comprehension test score might reveal comprehension problems, but you can’t determine that ...
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