The Slosson
Oral Reading Test (SORT)(Slosson, 1963) and the Metacomprehension Strategy Index (MSI) questionnaire (Schmitt, 1990) were given to all students in the class at both the beginning and the end of the school year.
Students averaged a nearly 2.8 grade level improvement in reading measured by the Slossen
Oral Reading Test (SORT).
The Slosson
Oral Reading Test (SORT) was administered before instruction began and after students completed the program.
This is most apparent in the large effect sizes for Text Reading Level (d = 2.02), the Ohio Word test (d = 1.38), Concepts About Print (d = 1.10), Writing Vocabulary (d = 0.90), Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (d = 1.06), and the Slosson
Oral Reading Test - Revised (d = 0.94).
Not exact matches
You might be concerned as well if you
read the following, pertaining to sodium chloride or table salt (17): «Acute
oral toxicity (LD50 — the dose at which half of the
tested animals die): 3,000 mg / kg [Rat].
- Vocabulary page - Puzzles / word search - J'ai, Qui a - Board game (vocabulary based)-
Test and quizzes for all strands - Foldable booklet and blank template - technology links - Draw what you
read - Presenting project -
oral activities - worksheets to practice numbers and avoir and much more.
They were initially given
oral tests, since most of them did not know how to
read.
As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized
reading and math
tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and
oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/Pages/index.aspx DIBELS
Oral Reading Fluency and Retell Fluency DIBELS
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) is a standardized, individually administered
test of accuracy and fluency with connected text.
English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing - Expository,
Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Social Studies - History, Ancient History, World Language, Spanish, Arts & Music, Graphic Arts, Special Education, EFL - ESL - ELD, Health, Other (Specialty), ELA
Test Prep, Math
Test Prep, Geography, Other (Social Studies - History), Other (ELA), Life Skills, Religion, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Business, School Counseling, Character Education, Word Problems, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing,
Oral Communication, Child Care,
Reading Strategies, Writing - Essays, Holidays / Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas / Chanukah / Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Presidents» Day, Decimals, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, End of Year, Phonics, Close
Reading, Classroom Community
Additionally, a subsample of students was given informal inventories of their
reading knowledge (consisting of lists of words to be defined and oral reading passages from the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty
reading knowledge (consisting of lists of words to be defined and
oral reading passages from the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty
reading passages from the Durrell Analysis of
Reading Difficulty
Reading Difficulty
test).
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrp/upload/ch3.pdf DIBELS
Oral Reading Fluency and Retell Fluency DIBELS
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) is a standardized, individually administered
test of accuracy and fluency with connected text.
One month before the students were administered the state
test, each student
read three probes from their current basal reader to determine an
oral reading fluency rate.
Results support the use of
oral reading fluency assessment as a valid tool for identifying students at risk of not passing the statewide
reading achievement
test.
The Ohio Grade 7
Reading Test scores were correlated with oral reading fluency rates to determine the extent of the relationship between the r
Reading Test scores were correlated with
oral reading fluency rates to determine the extent of the relationship between the r
reading fluency rates to determine the extent of the relationship between the results.
Significantly more reliable and valid outcomes on such
tests required three - minutes of
oral reading.
Expected outcomes for students — as measured by state
tests — are improved
reading comprehension, speaking and listening competencies,
oral and written production of English, and content understanding.
Sample assessment activities include
oral response to visual stimuli,
oral presentations, role playing, writing tasks (email, blog, news article, creative story, advertisement),
reading comprehension tasks, quizzes, unit
tests, and a final exam.
For the category of word attack and word meaning, seven different types were reported, including phonics (29 %), vocabulary (22 %), sight words (19 %),
tests (12 %),
oral reading (9 %), spelling (5 %), and work samples (5 %).
If someone assigned students to the Wilson phonics program because of an
oral reading fluency
test alone, I'd have concerns.
Test data show remarkable gains —
oral reading fluency, for example, rose nearly 25 points in APTT classrooms in 2009, while they rose by only 10 points in non-APTT classrooms.
The only issue should be about what approach would most likely benefit the student, and even a reliable
oral reading fluency
test on its own would not be adequate to make such a decision.
Unlike
oral reading, which had to be
tested individually and required that teachers judge the quality of responses, silent
reading comprehension and rate could be
tested in group settings and scored without recourse to professional judgment, (only stop watches and multiple choice questions were needed).
Achievement
tests that measure
oral reading, word identification, word decoding, and rote spelling yield relatively higher scores than measures of
reading comprehension.
On the
oral IRP appeal it was argued that the ASD result was not reliable owing to the fact that the ASD used by the officer might not have been working properly because: (a) the ASD had not been calibrated in accordance with recognized guidelines (within the required 28 days previous to its use); and (b) a properly working ASD could not have possibly had 3
test in a row that
read «NO GO» (in that if insufficient air was produced on the 3rd
test it should have
read «VOID» and not «NO GO»).