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The Truth About DIBELS: What It Is - What It Does
DIBELS is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards.
P. David Pearson Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is wildly popular up and down the local and state education hierarchies. Its easy, quick, and an approved Reading First assessment tool. So whats not to like? Everything. In The Truth About DIBELS youll find out why teachers, administrators, and reading researchers nationwide are emphatically resisting the insidious influence of DIBELS . Well-known education writersincluding P. David Pearson, Robert Tierney, Sandra Wilde, and Maryann Manningtell you how DIBELS hurts students and teachers and why impairs learning and teaching. They present chapters If DIBELS is creeping into your classroom, school, district, or stateor if its already taken overread The Truth About DIBELS . Then use its accompanying CD, loaded with a complete anti-DIBELS PowerPoint presentation, to show colleagues, policy makers, or parents that when it comes to reading assessment, DIBELS just doesnt work.
P. David Pearson Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is wildly popular up and down the local and state education hierarchies. Its easy, quick, and an approved Reading First assessment tool. So whats not to like? Everything. In The Truth About DIBELS youll find out why teachers, administrators, and reading researchers nationwide are emphatically resisting the insidious influence of DIBELS . Well-known education writersincluding P. David Pearson, Robert Tierney, Sandra Wilde, and Maryann Manningtell you how DIBELS hurts students and teachers and why impairs learning and teaching. They present chapters If DIBELS is creeping into your classroom, school, district, or stateor if its already taken overread The Truth About DIBELS . Then use its accompanying CD, loaded with a complete anti-DIBELS PowerPoint presentation, to show colleagues, policy makers, or parents that when it comes to reading assessment, DIBELS just doesnt work.
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112 pages, Paperback
First published September 5, 2006
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October 28, 2018
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July 14, 2008This collection of research and personal accounts of using DIBELS includes:
P. David Pearson's analysis of the research on DIBELS,
Kenneth Goodman's critical analysis of each DIBELS subtest,
A piece by Alan Flurkey on defining "normal" reading, with regards to accuracy and fluency,
A piece by Robert J. Tierney and Catherine Thome on education policy and DIBELS,
A summary of Sue Seay's dissertation on DIBELS and the SAT 10 test,
An analysis by Sandra Wilde on DIBELS and "scientifically based reading research",
and Maryann Manning, Constance Kamii, and Tsuguhiko Kato's summary of research of correlations of DIBELS to a writing assessment, as well as correlations of DIBELS subtests to other subtests.
P. David Pearson's analysis of the research on DIBELS,
Kenneth Goodman's critical analysis of each DIBELS subtest,
A piece by Alan Flurkey on defining "normal" reading, with regards to accuracy and fluency,
A piece by Robert J. Tierney and Catherine Thome on education policy and DIBELS,
A summary of Sue Seay's dissertation on DIBELS and the SAT 10 test,
An analysis by Sandra Wilde on DIBELS and "scientifically based reading research",
and Maryann Manning, Constance Kamii, and Tsuguhiko Kato's summary of research of correlations of DIBELS to a writing assessment, as well as correlations of DIBELS subtests to other subtests.
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