Early Reading Assessement

This indispensable, practitioner-oriented book serves as an authoritative guide to the complex field of early reading assessment. Provided are practical tools for screening and assessing K-2 students at risk for reading problems and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. Grounded in the auth [...]
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This indispensable, practitioner-oriented book serves as an authoritative guide to the complex field of early reading assessment. Provided are practical tools for screening and assessing K-2 students at risk for reading problems and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. Grounded in the author's extensive research and hands-on experience, the volume includes critical reviews of 42 specific measures, selected for optimal technical quality and presented in a clear, standardized format. Readers also gain needed skills for selecting appropriate measures for specific situations and reporting results effectively, making this an ideal resource for professionals working under the mandates of No Child Left Behind and Reading First legislation. After laying the foundations for early reading assessment with a comprehensive discussion of critical issues and domains, the volume presents detailed reviews of the best early reading measures currently available.Coverage includes: * the scientific basis of each instrument * the components of reading acquisition measured * administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures * each test's psychometric soundness and usability * linkages to intervention * source for obtaining the measure, and associated costs * internet resources and software programs that facilitate the testing process. Designed for maximum practical utility, the book presents case examples based on actual early primary grade referrals to help the reader better understand the type of information generated by each measure. Each case example includes a full score array and interpretation, and several encompass entire classroom groups in addition to individual students. Also provided are comparisons among different measures and demonstrations of how assessment results can be written up in a variety of effective report formats. Throughout the book, special topics sections highlight important issues and best practices in such areas as co-norming, age versus grade norms, discrepancy procedures, item response theory (IRT) and generalizability theory, and score types.This timely volume will enhance the knowledge and streamline the day-to-day practice of reading specialists, school psychologists, special educators, and others involved in reading and psychoeducational assessment. It will also serve as an invaluable text for assessment courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.