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If you know of other assessment profiles being used
successfully to assess literacy skills, please email eliza.buckley@literacytrust.org.uk.
An American site, The ETS Test Collection, includes an
extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement
devices from the early 1900s to the present. It was established
to make information on standardised tests and research
instruments available to researchers, graduate students
and teachers. It mainly covers tests produced by US publishers
and individual authors, although some from Great Britain,
Canada and Australia are also included. Visit www.ets.org
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The Assessment of Reading: A theoretically motivated review
of currently available tests, Morag Stuart and Rhona Stainthrop.
This report aims to help teachers redress the overemphaisis
on national targets through the use of other means of assessment
that benefit individual children. After describing the skills
that contribute to successful reading, the authors critically
evaluate a variety of predictive, diagnostic and assessment
tests designed for use by teachers. These include LARR (Test
of Emergent Literacy), DEST (Dyslexia Early Screening Test),
MIST (Middle Infant Screening Test) and WRAPS (Word Recognition
and Phonic Skills).
Published by the Reading Recovery National Network, Institute
of Education. ISBN 0854736921, cost £4.00. Order from
the Bookshop at the Institute of Education on 020 7612 6050
or visit www.ioe.ac.uk/publications
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). This is an American set of standardised, individually administered
measures of early literacy development. The short (one minute)
fluency measures are designed to be used regularly to monitor
the development of pre-reading and early reading skills. The
measures are available to download and use free of charge from
https://dibels.uoregon.edu.
Benchmark and Progress Monitoring booklets are available for
Kindergarten through to Sixth Grade. For a charge of $1 per
student per year, you can use the DIBELS Data System, which
allows you to enter your students' DIBELS data online and generate
automated reports.
Hunter-Grundin Literacy Profiles. These profiles aim to
enable schools and teachers to monitor individual pupil progress
and to further development in language and literacy through
diagnostic teaching. They were developed in response to the
Bullock report of the 1970s, before SATs were introduced, but
many schools continue to use this monitoring system. The five
levels correspond to five different age levels, from six years
to 12 years and seven months. Using a group of short tests,
the profiles cover reading for meaning; attitude to reading;
spelling; free writing; and spoken language. Scores are norm-referenced
to a UK sample.
Contact: Test Agency Ltd, Burgner House, 4630 Kingsgate, Oxford
Business Park South, Oxford OX4 2SU. Tel: 01865 402900. Email:
sales@testagency.com.
Website: www.testagency.com.
Neale Analysis of Reading Ability,
Marie D Neale, is an individually administered test of oral
reading for use with pupils aged six to 13 years. Based on a
series of short narratives, it provides summative measures of
reading accuracy, comprehension and rate, as well as detailed
diagnostic information about pupils' reading difficulties. Published
by NFER Nelson. Order on 0845 602 1937 or visit www.nfer-nelson.co.uk.
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