The Truth About DIBELS: What it is, What it Does

Author:   Ken Goodman ,  Alan Flurkey ,  Tsuguhiko Kato ,  P David Pearson
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
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9780325010502


Pages:   111
Publication Date:   05 September 2006
Recommended Age:   From 5 to 8 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Truth About DIBELS: What it is, What it Does


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"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 that: dispel the science and methodology that ""support"" DIBELS critique the validity of the information that DIBELS spits out demonstrate how DIBELS warps instructional planning to fit its limited measurementsand to fit the political ends of its creators and supporters expose the fiction behind its supposedly miraculous success rates 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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Author:   Ken Goodman ,  Alan Flurkey ,  Tsuguhiko Kato ,  P David Pearson
Publisher:   Heinemann USA
Imprint:   Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.191kg
ISBN:  

9780325010502


ISBN 10:   0325010501
Pages:   111
Publication Date:   05 September 2006
Recommended Age:   From 5 to 8 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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Dibels is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards. -- P. David Pearson


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Kenneth S. Goodman was Professor Emeritus, Language, Reading, and Culture, College of Education, University of Arizona, where he spent a long professional life observing the reading process in active use. From his earliest miscue research published in 1965 to the most recent presentation of his understanding of the reading process in 1997, he continued to fuel thought-provoking discussions of the nature of reading. His research earned him major awards from NCTE, IRA, NRC, and NCRLL. An elected member of the Reading Hall of Fame, Goodman is a past president of IRA, NCRLL, and the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking.

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