Diagnostic Assessment of Reading
Diagnostic Assessment of Reading
This symposium brings together four strands of research aimed at accentuating the knowledge we gain from reading measures by providing diagnostic information on individual readers. Diagnostic assessments provide information that can help focus instruction and intervention most effectively for individual children. The four studies presented represent varying efforts to develop diagnostic reading measures for use across a broad range of grades. The first two studies focus on early and intermediate grade readers and involve measures designed to supplement curriculum-based measurement (CBM) practices in schools by providing information that existing CBM assessments do not offer. The latter two focus on middle and high school readers and on a more comprehensive diagnosis of the component skills with which readers struggle. Each uses rigorous methods, including multidimensional scaling, to establish the technical adequacy of the new measures and represents a unique advancement in reading measurement. Results and their implications will be discussed by an expert in applied educational measurement.