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- Title
Reliability and validity of curriculum-based Informal Reading Inventories.
- Authors
Lynn S. Fuchs; Douglas Fuchs; Stanley L.Deno
- Abstract
Informal reading inventories (IRIs) are endorsed frequently by textbook authors and teacher trainers. However, the reliability and validity of standard and salient IRI procedures rarely have been investigated. Employing 91 elementary-age students, this study examined the technical adequacy of (a) choosing a criterion of 95%. accuracy for word recognition to determine an instructional level, (b) arbitrarily selecting a passage to represent the difficulty level of a basal reader, and (c) employing one-level floors and ceilings to demarcate levels beyond which behavior is not sampled. Correlational and congruency analyses supported the external validity of the 95% standard but questioned the reliability and validity of passage sampling procedures and one-level floors and ceilings. Sampling over occasions and test forms is discussed as a more valid IRI procedure.
- Subjects
TEACHER training; OCCUPATIONAL training; TEACHER development; TEACHER educators; TEACHERS; WORD recognition; READING (Elementary); LANGUAGE arts (Elementary); READING Recovery program
- Publication
Reading Research Quarterly, 1982, Vol 18, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0034-0553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/747536