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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 1st grader scored well, well above the benchmark on DIBELS and right below it on PALS. A little confused on how to interpret this. Any insights?[/quote]

That's super weird! I would definitely have expected the opposite (sure you don't have the tests confused). Can you post their anonymized results?[/quote]

The teachers giving the test don't always do it correctly and are often pressed to jam a bunch evals in a short period so corners are cut. I wouldn't take it too seriously.[/quote]

So you are blaming teachers? It’s not a difficult test to give correctly and we have been thoroughly trained.
In APS k-2 does both. 3-5 does DIBELS only. At my school we also did a separate spelling assessment to determine intervention needs. I much prefer DIBELS to PALS. PALS doesn’t pus you to go higher on the passages even if the student does very well- if the student doesn’t do great on the word list which determines the passage that determines the passage level and then they will come out below on the reading level. And the spelling level is equated to Words their way levels which APS no longer uses because it has been found ineffective. DIBELS is nationally recognized as superior.[/quote]

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