DIBELS also has a clearer way of communicating results to parents, Wenger said. i-Ready, by contrast, “has a very complicated, confusing, and ultimately overwhelming, report home.” Although supportive ...

DIBELS measures basic reading skills, such as phonics and word recognition. EOGs focus more on comprehension. The differing results point to a key concern among some academics — that efforts to ...

State officials said Thursday that they expect the share of third graders who are held back to be much smaller than the 23% who scored at the lowest level on the reading test, called DIBELS.

DIBELS also has a clearer way of communicating results to parents, Wenger said. i-Ready, by contrast, “has a very complicated, confusing, and ultimately overwhelming, report home.” Although supportive ...

Weixler said that because the DIBELS test only became mandatory in 2023, the analysis of students’ progress from kindergarten to third grade is based on older data from students who started ...

Weixler said that because the DIBELS test only became mandatory in 2023, the analysis of students’ progress from kindergarten to third grade is based on older data from students who started ...

The Literacy Hub at Lattie Coor School in Avondale engages both students and parents to improve reading. Test scores show the program is working.

The rules keep changing for how kindergarten readiness is measured in Florida. Here is an at-a-glance look at changes over the years: — 1997-1999: Each of Florida’s 67 counties uses its own ...

Recently, a team met to look at a DIBELS Zones of Growth chart that measures how many months of progress a student made from fall to winter. We were shocked to see that a student who needed intensive ...

Louisiana Revised Statute 17:24.11, also known as Act 422 or the Third-Grade Retention Law, states that third-graders who make a low composite score on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy ...

According to Brown’s presentation of data based on DIBELS testing, the number of kindergarteners reaching literacy performance benchmarks decreased overall from almost 50% in fall 2023 to 47% in ...