Week 9 Compare and Contrast QRI-5 and DIBELS :

Heather Cuccia                                                                                   EDLI636 

My Understanding of Dibels: Assignment#1

Dibels is a type of assessment that teachers use to identify students reading ability and level to provide ways in which a student can become a more advent reader. Dibels assessment can start from grades K through 6. Dibels means Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, which is a set of measures for assessment of early literacy skills in short fluency measures to monitor regularly development of early literacy and reading skills. Teachers use this type of assessment to identify a student who is more likely to require an intensive instruction which will help the student in ways of preventing them from being a struggling reader as time goes on.

Dibels has seven measures which are phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy and fluency, comprehension and vocabulary.

Assignment#2

Initial Sound Fluency

This is a standardized individually administered phonological awareness that can assess a student’s ability to recognize and say the initial sound of a word. The examiner will show 4 pictures and the student will name each one and the student should be able to determine the sound that the picture begins with. The examiner takes the amount of time it takes the student to identify a correct sound and converts the score into the number of correct sounds that was done in a minute.

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

This measures the student’s ability of three and four phoneme words into their own phonemes fluently. This assessment is done by the examiner orally presenting words of three and four phonemes and having the student verbally produce the individual phonemes in each word given. The result is determined by the number of correct phonemes given in one minute.

Nonsense Word Fluency

This measurement is a test of the alphabetic principle meaning letter-sound correspondence in which letters represent the most common sounds and the ability to blend letters into words that letters represent in making common sounds. The examiner will present a sheet of paper to a student with random ordered CVC and VC nonsense words and will ask the student to verbally produce the individual letter sounds in each word or read the entire word out loud. The time limit is one minute to produce as many words as the student can and the score is added up by the total number of letter-sounds produced correctly during that time period. This is used to measure the student’s ability to read unfamiliar words as whole words.

Oral Reading Fluency

Is a test if accuracy in fluency with text. It is the ability to effortlessly translate letters to sound and sound to words. The fluent reader is one who decoding processes are automatic which will not need any further attention. Students who can do this have a higher rate of comprehension during reading because they are able to understand the meaning of the text being read.

Retell Fluency

This is the measure which assesses the ability to extract meaning from text, which checks for comprehension.

Assignment #3 QRI-5 and Dibels

Summary:

QRI-5 is an informal reading inventory designed to provide information about conditions under which students can identity words and comprehend text and conditions that appear to result in unsuccessful word identification and unsuccessful comprehension of text.  This assessment provides words lists and passages to help assess the students oral and silent reading levels. The student at the end is required to answer questions based on what they have read to be able to make connections to text.

Dibels is Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills and is made up of several procedures and assessments that focus on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy and fluency, vocabulary and comprehension from grades k -6. Ways to use this assessment would be short reading passages and check for fluency to see where student may need the interventions. 

Similarities and Differences:

The QRI-5 assessment is based on grades k-12 where the Dibels is from k-6. Dibels also has time limits during each assessment ranging from one minute. The QRI-5 uses word lists and concept questions, miscue analysis retelling and comprehension questions where the Dibels assesses issues such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy and fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.Types of ways to assess using this method using QRI-5 is to help document growth of a student progress as time goes on as well as determine area's that a student needs to work on more than another area. Dibels  is timed so this assessment will not take long and allow time for other things in the classroom .