Screening Reading Tools Chart

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The tools chart below reflects the results of the first annual review of screening reading tools by the Center’s Technical Review Committee (TRC).

The Center defines screening as follows:

Screening involves brief assessments that are valid, reliable, and evidence-based. They are conducted with all students or targeted groups of students to identify students who are at risk of academic failure and, therefore, likely to need additional or alternative forms of instruction to supplement the conventional general education approach.

For more information on how to conduct screening in an RTI context, see the Center library’s resources on screening here. For a glossary of terms related to the technical adequacy of screening tools, click here.

Chart Features

  • Across the top of the chart are the standards by which the TRC reviews each tool. Click on each standard for a detailed description of how the rating was defined.
  • The vendors/developers of the tools have provided implementation information which includes the cost of the tool, what is needed to implement it, the support provided, how the tool is intended to be used, and with whom it should be used. To access this information, click on name of the tool in the "Area" column.
  • The ratings in the chart can be clicked on to view the specific data submitted for Classification Accuracy, Generalizability, Reliability, Validity, and Disaggregated Data for Diverse Populations.

 

The National Center on RTI publishes this tools chart to assist educators and families in becoming informed consumers who can select reading screening tools that best meet their individual needs.

The Center's Technical Review Committee (TRC) on Screening independently established a set of criteria for evaluating the scientific rigor of screening tools. The TRC rated each submitted tool against these criteria but did not compare it to other tools on the chart. The presence of a particular tool on the chart does not constitute endorsement and should not be viewed as a recommendation from either the TRC on Screening or the National Center on RTI.

Please note that all submissions to the TRC review process were voluntary. An individual, firm, or other vendor whose tool appears on the chart chose to submit its tool for TRC review and then to have its tool and TRC ratings displayed on the chart. The National Center on RTI does not publish the names of individuals, firms, or other vendors who submit tools for review but decide against having the results included on the tools chart.

The National Center on RTI will issue another review of available reading and math screening tools in spring 2009.


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Classification
Accuracy
Disaggregated Reliability, Validity, and Classification Data for Diverse Populations
Efficiency
Administration Format
 		Administration & Scoring Time Scoring Key
 Norms/
Benchmarks
AIMSweb
Reading Curriculum Based Measurement (R-CBM) partially convincing evidence Moderate High convincing evidence convincing evidence no evidence submitted Individual 2 Minutes  Yes  Yes
Dynamic Indicators of
Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) 		Letter Naming
Fluency

 		unconvincing evidence Moderate Low
 convincing evidence partially convincing evidence no evidence submitted Individual 2 Minutes  Yes  Yes
Nonsense Word
Fluency

 		partially convincing evidence Moderate Low convincing evidence partially convincing evidence unconvincing evidence Individual 2 Minutes Yes
 Yes
Oral Reading
Fluency

 		partially convincing evidence Moderate High convincing evidence partially convincing evidence partially convincing evidence Individual 2 Minutes Yes Yes
Phoneme
Segmentation
Fluency

 		unconvincing evidence Moderate Low partially convincing evidence unconvincing evidence partially convincing evidence Individual 2 Minutes  Yes  Yes
Scholastic Phonics
Inventory - Screener Version
partially convincing evidence Moderate High convincing evidence partially convincing evidence no evidence submitted Individual
Group
 10 Minutes Computer Scored
 No
STAR Early
Literacy

 partially convincing evidence Broad convincing evidence partially convincing evidence convincing evidence
Individual
Group
 10 Minutes Computer Scored
Yes
Reading partially convincing evidence Moderate High convincing evidence convincing evidence convincing evidence Individual
Group
 10 Minutes Computer Scored
 Yes
STEEP Oral Reading Fluency

 		convincing evidence Moderate High
 convincing evidence partially convincing evidence no evidence submitted Individual 1 Minute  Yes  Yes

Chart Legend: convincing evidence Convincing Evidence | partially convincing evidencePartially Convincing Evidence |unconvincing evidenceUnconvincing Evidence | no evidence submittedNo Evidence Submitted

 
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