[MOSAIC] DIBELS Results

[Kinderjane at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/28/2007 3:32:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
lindafarns at comcast.net writes:

Our  end-of-year DIBELS showed that across the three first grade classrooms, 
62% of  the students had a drop in their Phoneme Segmentation Fluency.  
Knowing  these students personally, I was surprised at first but then realized that  
these very students were among the strongest readers.  Within this same  62% 
who droped in PSF, 49% had gains in the Oral Reading Fluency  section.  And, 
while I'm not putting in a plug for DIBELS (I think it is  quite invalid, 
especially based on how we are instructing our students), I was  surprised at these 
results.


Probably because readers see chunks and blends as chunks and blends.   They 
get more points on dibels for segmenting these.  For example,  /c/l/a/p/ will 
get more points on DIBELS than /cl/ap/ which is how I want my  children to see 
the word. Your teachers are teaching children to be  good readers rather than 
good DIBELS testers.  Good for  them!     Jane in SC  :-)



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