The purpose of the current study was to determine interrater reliability (IRR) of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Curriculum-based Measures (R-CBM) when used with Spanish-speaking English Learner (EL) students. The ORF R-CBM probes obtained from AIMSweb are measures of a student's reading accuracy skills and reading fluency skills. Certified school…

This is a correlational study of two assessments used in education. The two assessments, Renaissance Learning's STAR Reading and Fountas and Pinnell's Benchmark Assessment System, were analyzed using data collected from third grade students to see if there was a significant correlation. The data collected was the scaled score from STAR Reading…

This study investigated the validity of measures that were hypothesized to account for significant variance in English reading ability. During kindergarten, 63 bilingual Hispanic children completed letter identification, English and Spanish phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and sentence repetition static assessment tasks. They also…