The truth about DIBELS
Subtitle: what it is, what it does
By: [edited by] Kenneth S. Goodman with Alan Flurkey ... [et al.] ; foreword by P. David Pearson.
Contributors: Goodman, Kenneth S.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9780325010502; 9780325010502
Subjects: Reading (Primary) -- Ability testing -- United States.; Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Evaluation.
Other titles: Examining DIBELS.
Notes: "A previous edition of this book, titled Examining DIBELS: what it is and what it does, was published by the Vermont Society for the Study of Education"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

System requirements: Pentium processor 450 Mhz or Power PC processor G3/333 Mhz; 64 MB RAM; Windows 98 or System 8.6; Adobe Reader, Quicktime 7.0, Microsoft PowerPoint viewer; SVGA Color display, 8x CD-ROM drive, sound card.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: DIBELS, one family's journey / Lisa Laser; title: A critical review of DIBELS / Ken Goodman; title: What's "normal" about real reading? / Alan Flurkey; title: Is DIBELS leading us down the wrong path? / Robert J. Tierney and Catherine Thome; title: How DIBELS failed Alabama: a research report / Susan Seay; title: But isn't DIBELS scientifically based? / Sandra Wilde; title: DIBELS: not justifiable / Maryann Manning, Constance Kamii, and Tsuguhiko Kato; title: Appendix: a brief summary of each sub-test in DIBELS.