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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Thank you, are you a teacher? Do you find DIBELS to be more helpful than PALS?[/quote]

I teach 4th. It is a lot easier to give than the PALS virtually because there are fewer subtests. We are still learning about it because APS did not start DIBELS  administration until November. They wanted to get PALS (k-2) done first which takes much longer to administer.

The good I can see so far is that it just screens for the students who need an intervention. The downside is that it doesn’t really give a “level” like PALS does, that’s not the point. Howeve The parents want that info so as you can see from this it’s harder for them to understand and APS hasn’t done a great job of rolling it out or communicating to parents. Basically we are using the data to see who needs work on decoding and who needs work on comprehension. Anyone in the green or blue ranges is really totally fine or above.

APS is focusing on the composite score which supposedly has greater significance than the individual scores. So if that composite says you are fine, again, I would not worry about your child!! [/quote]

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