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  2. DIBELS - Wikipedia

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    DIBELS ( Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a series of short tests designed to evaluate key literacy skills among students in kindergarten through 8th grade, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. The theory behind DIBELS is that giving students a number of quick tests, will ...

  3. Lexile - Wikipedia

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    e. The Lexile Framework for Reading is an educational tool that uses a measure called a Lexile to match readers with books, articles and other leveled reading resources. Readers and books are assigned a score on the Lexile scale, in which lower scores reflect easier readability for books and lower reading ability for readers.

  4. Flesch–Kincaid readability tests - Wikipedia

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    The results of the two tests correlate approximately inversely: a text with a comparatively high score on the Reading Ease test should have a lower score on the Grade-Level test. Rudolf Flesch devised the Reading Ease evaluation; somewhat later, he and J. Peter Kincaid developed the Grade Level evaluation for the United States Navy .

  5. Hyperglycemia (High Blood Sugar): Symptoms, Causes, More

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    gastrointestinal issues, such as nausea, vomiting, or pain. dry skin. confusion. People with HHS typically have a blood glucose level over 600 mg/dL, according to a 2017 review. In addition to ...

  6. The audiogram is a fairly simple graph: The Y-axis (vertical) measures the intensity, or loudness, of the sound. It’s measured in decibels (Db) and ranges from -10 to 110 on the audiogram. Low ...

  7. In Search of the Highest A1C in Diabetes History - Healthline

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    If you do the math, clocking a 14 percent means you’re possibly experiencing a 24-7-90 (24 hours a day, 7 days per week, for 90 days) blood sugar average of 355 mg/dL. Of course, labs can ...

  8. Dale–Chall readability formula - Wikipedia

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    Formula. The formula for calculating the raw score of the Dale–Chall readability score (1948) is given below: If the percentage of difficult words is above 5%, then add 3.6365 to the raw score to get the adjusted score, otherwise the adjusted score is equal to the raw score. Difficult words are all words that are not on the word list, but it ...

  9. Fasting Hyperglycemia: What This High Blood Sugar Means

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    Fasting hyperglycemia is when your blood sugar levels stay high even when you haven’t eaten for a long time. Doctors will sometimes have you fast (not eat) for several hours or overnight so they ...