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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. Pseudoword - Wikipedia

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    A standardized test for beginning readers, Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), shows high scores in pseudoword pronunciation being correlated with high scores in the reading of authentic words. [11] Due to these findings, often pseudowords are used to train early readers to strengthen their morphological knowledge.

  5. Ten L.A. schools to stop standardized tests amid debate ...

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    In addition, a test called DIBELS assesses the reading of young students. ... but whether or not your school could move up on its test scores." "For at least 20 years, I have found that repugnant ...

  6. Modesto NAACP tutoring program improves Black student ... - AOL

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    All 50 students who joined the program two years ago improved their DIBELS scores, which measure early literacy skills like phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension. Fourteen of those ...

  7. Does Reading Make You Smarter? 7 Things to Know - Healthline

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    6. It can improve brain health. Books put knowledge directly into your hands (or ears, in the case of audiobooks). Yet all the knowledge in the world may have little benefit when you have trouble ...

  8. Flesch–Kincaid readability tests - Wikipedia

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    "The Flesch–Kincaid" (F–K) reading grade level was developed under contract to the U.S. Navy in 1975 by J. Peter Kincaid and his team. [1] Related U.S. Navy research directed by Kincaid delved into high-tech education (for example, the electronic authoring and delivery of technical information), [2] usefulness of the Flesch–Kincaid readability formula, [3] computer aids for editing tests ...

  9. Column: How Mississippi gamed its national reading test ...

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    Mississippi's reading test scores showed that its educational policies were spectacularly successful, triggering news reports of a 'miracle.' But it was a statistical illusion.