The Truth About DIBELS: What It Is - What It Does Review

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(More customer reviews)It is difficult to believe that the three people who rated this book as one star actually read the book, and one actually admits he hasn't. First, they criticize the author, Ken Goodman, without seeming to know that, in fact, this book is a compilation of articles and peer reviewed research by a number of highly respected people in the reading community. Second, they express their own point of view about this assessment tool and point to no problems with the research and commentary in the book other than the fact that it conflicts with their own reconceived notions about DIBLES. It seems to me that if one expects to be view as a professional whose opinion should carry weight, one should at least read before writing a critique.

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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. It's easy, quick, and an approved Reading First assessment tool. So what's not to like?

Everything.

In The Truth About DIBELS you'll find out why teachers, administrators, and reading researchers nationwide are emphatically resisting the insidious influence of DIBELS. Well-known education writers - including P. David Pearson, Robert Tierney, Sandra Wilde, and Maryann Manning - tell 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 measurements - and 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 state - or if it's already taken over - read 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 doesn't work.

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