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Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam-Revised
Purpose • The Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised-Normative Update is a comprehensive individual assessment of reading ability. The WRMU-R was re-normed in 1995-96.
Appropriate for: Grades K-sixteen ages 5 years 0 months through 75 Time – 10-30 minutes for each cluster of individually administered tests
Reliability Internal reliability • Tests median = .91 (range .68 to .98) • Clusters median = .95 (range .87 to .98) • Total median = .97 (range .86 to .99)
ReadinessForm G Merely • Visual Auditory learning • A task to determine if the student can associate symbols with words • Tests memory, attention, grouping of give-and-take parts (i.e., ing with verbs) • Letter identification • Alphabet recognition • Different fonts • Print and cursive
Basic Skills • Examination 3: Word identification • Reading words • Begins with i discussion on a folio and advances to multiple words • 106 items in increasing difficulty • The student does not demand to know what any of the words mean • Average score for a kindergarten student is 1 • Average score for a pupil in 12th class is 96
Bones Skills • Exam iv: Word Set on • Reading ii types of words • Nonsense words • Words with very depression frequency usage • Measures the ability to apply phonic and structural analytic skills • Preparation is provided so the student will know how to approach the examination
Comprehension • Exam v: Word Comprehension • 3 subtests • Each begins with sample items • Grooming continues until competes the detail correctly. • Subtest 5A: Antonyms • Measures ability to read a word and reply orally with a word contrary in significant
Comprehension • Subtest 5B: Synonyms • Comprehension of reading vocabulary • Read a give-and-take and state some other word similar in meaning • Synonyms are "a more than difficult cognitive processing task than Antonyms." p. 7
Comprehension • Subtest 5C: Analogies • Read a pair of words; • ascertain the relationship, • read the first word of the 2nd pair, • use the same relationship to supply a word to consummate the analogy • Demonstrates content embedded word knowledge
Word comprehension reading vocabularies • General reading • Science-mathematics • Social studies • Humanities
Comprehension • Test 6: Passage Comprehension • Modified cloze process • Short passage with a blank line • Educatee supplies a word that "fits" in the blank • The first i/iii of the passage are i judgement long and take a picture related to the text
Assistants • The examination battery will take an experienced tester about 45 minutes • Test past complete pages
Follow the basal rules • Starting time at the points indicated in the tables in the examination easel • If the pupil is correct on the kickoff 6 items, a basal is established. • If less than 6 are correct, go dorsum a page and administer the whole page. • Keep to test backwards starting with the showtime item on a page until the kickoff vi on a page are correctly answered
Ceiling rules • six or more than consecutively failed items that end with the last particular on a examination page. • Come across page 22 for an example of basal and ceiling scoring
Word identification • MUST know how to pronounce the words in the test (p. 28-29) • A table of suggested starting points is provided in the easel • If the student does not respond to the first item, score information technology 0 and say the word and ask the pupil to repeat it • NO OTHER WORDS Will BE READ TO THE STUDENT • WRITE what the educatee said for incorrect responses • Write comments the student says
Word attack • If the educatee scores 0 or 1 on the give-and-take identification, a score of 0 can be recorded for Discussion Set on • (For our exercise, don't do this) • Begin with the 2 sample items; then proceed to item i • Study the pronunciation guide (p. 28-29) • The student must reply within v seconds • The "word" must be read naturally –not sunded out for the final reading • WRITE what the educatee says
Word comprehension • For all 3 subtests, the pupil reads the item aloud and responds orally • Only single give-and-take responses are acceptable • Mispronunciations are not errors • WRITE what the student says • Begin with the practice detail in each subtest
Scoring • Score equally you administer the test • Score 1 or 0 past the detail • Write any comments and erroneous responses • Raw score is the sum of correct responses plus i point for every item below the basal
Scoring word comprehension • Antonyms and Synonyms combined score • Calculate the score for each subtest • Add them • Convert this raw score to a part score • Record in the box labeled 5A+5B part score • Covert the Analogies raw score to a part score • Sum both part scores for a Word comprehension W score
Reading vocabularies • Count the correct responses for the Examination 5 subtests • The designation for each response is coded on the examination record • K general reading • SM science and math • SOC social studies • H humanities
Age and grade calculations • Age is standard- utilize the AGS figurer if you wish • Class placement is by tenths of the schoolhouse year • See table in the examination protocol or on page 32