Week 9

Assignment #3:

Summarize:

QRI-5 is an assessment that focuses on students’ word identification and reading comprehension abilities. Students are provided with a passage to read and required to answer some questions related to the content of the passage after reading.

DIBELS is made up of a serious of procedures and tests focusing on five main parts: Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle, Accuracy and Fluency with text, Vocabulary and Comprehension.

Similarities and Differences:

QRI-5 and DIBELS are measurements and assessments for identifying students’ reading abilities and monitoring teachers’ intervention strategies. Both assessments require students read and retell. Both assessments are intended in helping students become better readers.

However, QRI-5 is a comprehensive tool while DIBELS is a detailed one. QRI-5 focuses more on students’ word identification and reading comprehension, and DIBELS takes more detailed elements into consideration including phonemic and alphabet.

Instructional planning and decisions

    In any classrooms, students’ reading abilities will be at different reading levels. Teachers can use these assessments to determine each student’s reading levels and make corresponding solutions. It is an important tool for differentiation instructions. Teachers can make adjustments to different students to help them achieve better performance on their levels.