Form effects on the estimation of students' oral reading fluency using DIBELS
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This study examined the effects of passage and presentation order on progress monitoring assessments of oral reading fluency in 134 second grade students. The students were randomly assigned to read six one-minute passages in one of six fixed orders over a seven week period. The passages had been developed to be comparable based on readability formulas. Estimates of oral reading fluency varied across the six stories (67.9 to 93.9), but not as a function of presentation order. These passage effects altered the shape of growth trajectories and affected estimates of linear growth rates, but were shown to be removed when forms were equated. Explicit equating is essential to the development of equivalent forms, which can vary in difficulty despite high correlations across forms and apparent equivalence through readability indices.
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Ardoin and Christ found statistically significant differences in passage stability with the FAIP-R passage set resulting in the least amount of error and the DIBELS passage set resulting in the greatest amount of error; FAIP-R passages had the lowest intercepts; measurement error increased with fluency rates.
“Statistically significant differences were found “with the FAIP-R passage set resulting in the least amount of error and the DIBELS passage set resulting in the greatest amount of error” (p.274).In addition, the FAIP-R passages had the lowest intercepts.Finally, measurement error increased with fluency rates.”
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- Authors
- Francis, D. J., Santi, K. L., Barr, C., Fletcher, J. M., Varisco, A., & Foorman, B. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Houston (US)
- Florida State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Francis, David J.
- Venue
- Journal of School Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-06
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 315-342
- ISSN
- 0022-4405 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2396583
- OpenAlex
- W2082432009
- Cited by
- 157
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Journal of School Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P50HD052117, R01HD028172)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Keywords
- oral reading fluency, DIBELS, progress monitoring, presentation order, second grade students, growth trajectories, linear growth rate, readability formulas
- MeSH terms
- Curriculum, Educational Measurement, Educational Status, Humans, Reading, Students, Teaching, Models, Statistical
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