Accuracy of the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Measure for Predicting Third Grade Reading Comprehension Outcomes
We evaluated the validity of DIBELS ( Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) ORF ( Oral Reading Fluency) for predicting performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT-SSS) and Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) reading comprehension measures. The usefulness of previously...
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Published in | Journal of school psychology Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 343 - 366 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
United States
Elsevier Ltd
01.06.2008
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Summary: | We evaluated the validity of DIBELS (
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) ORF (
Oral Reading Fluency) for predicting performance on the
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT-SSS) and
Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) reading comprehension measures. The usefulness of previously established ORF risk-level cutoffs [Good, R.H., Simmons, D.C., and Kame’enui, E.J. (2001). The importance and decision-making utility of a continuum of fluency-based indicators of foundational reading skills for third-grade high-stakes outcomes.
Scientific Studies of Reading, 5, 257–288.] for third grade students were evaluated on calibration (
n
S1
=
16,539) and cross-validation (
n
S2
=
16,908) samples representative of Florida's
Reading First population. The strongest correlations were the third (February/March) administration of ORF with both FCAT-SSS and SAT-10 (
r
S
=
.70–.71), when the three tests were administered concurrently. Recalibrated ORF risk-level cut scores derived from ROC (receiver-operating characteristic) curve analyses produced more accurate identification of true positives than previously established benchmarks. The recalibrated risk-level cut scores predict performance on the FCAT-SSS equally well for students from different socio-economic, language, and race/ethnicity categories. |
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ISSN: | 0022-4405 1873-3506 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jsp.2007.06.006 |