The Truth About DIBELS
What it is, What it Does
Published on 5. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
111 pages
978-0-325-01050-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 it 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.
- 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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Portsmouth
United States
Publishing group
Heinemann USA
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Kindergarten to Preschool, Reading Age: From 5 to 8 years
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-325-01050-2 (9780325010502)
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Persons
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.