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

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

DIBELS is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards. P. David PearsonDynamic 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" DIBELScritique the validity of the information that DIBELS spits outdemonstrate how DIBELS warps instructional planning to fit its limited measurementsand to fit the political ends of its creators and supportersexpose the fiction behind its supposedly miraculous success ratesIf 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.ReviewDibels is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards. -- P. David PearsonAbout the AuthorKenneth S. Goodman is Professor Emeritus, Language, Reading, and Culture, College of Education, University of Arizona, where he has 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 has continued to fuel thought-provoking discussions of the nature of reading. His research has 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.