Accuracy of the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Measure for Predicting Third Grade Reading Comprehension Outcomes

We evaluated the validity of DIBELS ( Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) ORF ( Oral Reading Fluency) for predicting performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT-SSS) and Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) reading comprehension measures. The usefulness of previously...

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Published in:Journal of school psychology 2008-06, Vol.46 (3), p.343-366
Main Authors: Roehrig, Alysia D., Petscher, Yaacov, Nettles, Stephen M., Hudson, Roxanne F., Torgesen, Joseph K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
At risk populations
Beginning Reading
Child
Cognition
Correlation
Educational Measurement
Educational Status
Federal Programs
Female
Florida
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
Grade 3
Humans
Male
No Child Left Behind Act 2001
Oral reading
Predictive Value of Tests
Predictor Variables
Prospective Studies
Reading
Reading Achievement
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Reading Programs
Reading Skills
Reading Tests
Risks
Stanford Achievement Tests
Students
Test Validity
Validity
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Summary:We evaluated the validity of DIBELS ( Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) ORF ( Oral Reading Fluency) for predicting performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT-SSS) and Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) reading comprehension measures. The usefulness of previously established ORF risk-level cutoffs [Good, R.H., Simmons, D.C., and Kame’enui, E.J. (2001). The importance and decision-making utility of a continuum of fluency-based indicators of foundational reading skills for third-grade high-stakes outcomes. Scientific Studies of Reading, 5, 257–288.] for third grade students were evaluated on calibration ( n S1 = 16,539) and cross-validation ( n S2 = 16,908) samples representative of Florida's Reading First population. The strongest correlations were the third (February/March) administration of ORF with both FCAT-SSS and SAT-10 ( r S = .70–.71), when the three tests were administered concurrently. Recalibrated ORF risk-level cut scores derived from ROC (receiver-operating characteristic) curve analyses produced more accurate identification of true positives than previously established benchmarks. The recalibrated risk-level cut scores predict performance on the FCAT-SSS equally well for students from different socio-economic, language, and race/ethnicity categories.
ISSN:0022-4405
1873-3506
DOI:10.1016/j.jsp.2007.06.006