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She responded by saying, “I spend more time with DD than the teacher. Why would you assume I don't know her reading level? I do. I don't need fancy tests to know.”  Now she also said that, “[u]just to prove the point at school she is testing for 2nd grade level.”  [/u]I believe that underlined part is a complete lie.  Why?  Because her first post is, “The teacher is not aware of my DD's reading level I'm bothered by the fact that DD's kindergarten teacher has been sending books for her to read at home and these books are way too easy for DD. I corrected the teacher and asked for higher level reading, but now it bothers me. Should she know the levels of her students?”  Clearly if the school tested her at a 2nd grade reading level, the teacher would know she was at a 2nd grade reading level, even if she was sending the “wrong” books home.  The mom is backpeddling now because she doesn’t “need a fancy test” to actually “know” what her child’s reading level is.  So this is why this post is spot on...she KNOWS her kid's reading level without "needing" this "fancy test" that schools throughout the nation feel are necessary to determine true reading level.

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Well, if she's fluently reading second grade books at home. And her DIEBELS scores are ranked for second grade. So if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck... maybe she DOES know the alphabet, after all.[/quote]

It is Dibels, one "e".  Who administered it?  [/quote]

Dibels is a fluency test, not a comprehension test.  It has many critics.  Here are some quotes from a WA Post article:
..."Early childhood expert Samuel J. Meisels, president of the Chicago-based Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, said DIBELS has "very, very weak validity," and numerous other critics have gone further.   "It is an absurd set of silly little one-minute tests that never get close to measuring what reading is really about -- making sense of print," wrote Kenneth S. Goodman, a professor at the University of Arizona who is a past president of the International Reading Association, in his book "The Truth About DIBELS."  
Goodman and others say the mini quizzes focus on only a few specific skills that do not encompass everything needed for comprehensive reading instruction. The emphasis on speed, they say, is misplaced in reading development. The quizzes include one in which students are supposed to read made-up words as fast as they can, called the Nonsense Word Fluency measure. Another asks students to read short passages out loud as fast as they can."

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