Just a few years ago, a set of tests known as “dibbles” would have elicited little more than a chuckle from educators or anyone else. Today, they’re taking it seriously, because the acronym DIBELS has ...

Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 185-196 (12 pages) Students with disabilities often have difficulties acquiring basic reading skills. The purpose ...

Non-profit NWEA is launching a new oral reading fluency assessment for K-3 that uses speech recognition, automatic scoring and computer adaptive technology rather than human judgment and individual ...

Naperville, IL, and Houston County, GA, educators share their insights on how this early literacy assessment tool is pivotal in driving better student outcomes. PORTLAND, Ore., March 21, 2024 ...

First grade teacher Rita McCord instructs students in reading at Hiawatha Elementary School in Hiawatha on Feb. 1. The Cedar Rapids Community School District began training special education teachers ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

The Reading First Impact Study interim report released by IES last month upset a lot of the program’s fans, who’ve seen progress in their own schools/districts or on a statewide basis. It caused a bit ...

For children with severe astigmatism, wearing glasses to correct blurred vision can significantly improve accurate reading speed, reports a new study. Astigmatism is a common condition causing blurred ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...