DIBELS Assessment Support
This section provides links to different
components of the DIBELS Asessment, including information on the PDA
based version of the DIBELS Assessment created by Wireless Generation.
The Official DIBELS Homepage
http://dibels.uoregon.edu
The
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of
standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy
development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures
used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early
reading skills.
Wireless Generation-
http://www.wgen.net/web
Wireless Generation has developed mCLASS® (for Mobile Classroom
Assessment) software and created handheld computer versions of commonly
used, paper-based early reading assessments, including TPRI®, DIBELS®,
PALS™ and reading records. Used throughout EETT schools, this is the
general homepage for the product.
Specific Links of Interest:
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http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/isf.php
The Initial Sounds Fluency
Subtest
The
DIBELS Initial Sounds Fluency (ISF) Measure is a standardized,
individually administered measure of phonological awareness that
assesses a child's ability to recognize and produce the initial sound in
an orally presented word (Kaminski & Good, 1996, 1998; Laimon, 1994).
The Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Subtest -
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/psf.php
The
DIBELS Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) measure is a standardized,
individually administered test of phonological awareness (Kaminski &
Good, 1996). The PSF measure assesses a student's ability to segment
three- and four-phoneme words into their individual phonemes fluently.
The Letter Naming Fluency Subtest
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http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/lnf.php
DIBELS
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) is a standardized, individually administered
test that provides a measure of risk. Students are presented with a page
of upper- and lower-case letters arranged in a random order and are
asked to name as many letters as they can.
The Nonsense Word Fluency Subtest
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http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/nwf.php
The
DIBELS Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) measure is a standardized,
individually administered test of the alphabetic principle - including
letter-sound correspondence and of the ability to blend letters into
words in which letters represent their most common sounds (Kaminski &
Good, 1996).
The Oral Reading Fluency Subtest
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http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/orf.php
DIBELS
Oral Reading Fluency
(ORF) is a standardized, individually administered test of accuracy and
fluency with connected text.
The Retell Fluency Subtest -
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/orf.php
DIBELS
Retell Fluency
(RTF)
is intended to provide a comprehension check for the ORF assessment.
The Word Use Fluency Subtest
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http://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/wuf.php
DIBELS Word Use Fluency (WUF) is
intended to measure oral vocabulary and is given to students in grades K
– 3.
DIBELS Materials Download
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https://dibels.uoregon.edu/measures/materials.php
Go here to download all measures of
DIBELS. (You will need your free password!)
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