The Fluency Construct: Curriculum-Based Measurement Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by Kelli D. Cummings, Yaacov Petscher (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of fluency as a construct and its assessment in the context of curriculum-based measurement (CBM). Comparing perspectives from language acquisition, reading, and mathematics, the book parses the vagueness and complexities surrounding fluency concepts and their resulting impact on testing, intervention, and students' educational development. Applications of this knowledge in screening and testing, ideas for creating more targeted measures, and advanced methods for studying fluency data demonstrate the overall salience of fluency within CBM. Throughout, contributors argue for greater specificity and nuance in isolating skills to be measured and improved, and for terminology that reflects those educational benchmarks.

Included in the coverage:

• Indicators of fluent writing in beginning writers.
• Fluency in language acquisition, reading, and mathematics.
• Foundations of fluency-based assessments in behavioral and psychometric paradigms.
• Using response time and accuracy data to inform the measurement of fluency.
• Using individual growth curves to model reading fluency.
• Latent class analysis for reading fluency research.

The Fluency Construct: Curriculum-Based Measurement Concepts and Applications is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, language and literature, applied linguistics, special education, neuropsychology, and social work.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
What Is Fluency?....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Indicators of Fluent Writing in Beginning Writers....Pages 21-66
Mathematics Fluency—More than the Weekly Timed Test....Pages 67-89
Using Curriculum-Based Measurement Fluency Data for Initial Screening Decisions....Pages 91-122
Using Oral Reading Fluency to Evaluate Response to Intervention and to Identify Students not Making Sufficient Progress....Pages 123-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Foundations of Fluency-Based Assessments in Behavioral and Psychometric Paradigms....Pages 143-163
Using Response Time and Accuracy Data to Inform the Measurement of Fluency....Pages 165-186
An Introduction to the Statistical Evaluation of Fluency Measures with Signal Detection Theory....Pages 187-221
Different Approaches to Equating Oral Reading Fluency Passages....Pages 223-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Using Individual Growth Curves to Model Reading Fluency....Pages 269-308
Introduction to Latent Class Analysis for Reading Fluency Research....Pages 309-332
Using Latent Change Score Analysis to Model Co-Development in Fluency Skills....Pages 333-364
Conclusion: Oral Reading Fluency or Reading Aloud from Text: An Analysis Through a Unified View of Construct Validity....Pages 365-384
Back Matter....Pages 385-386

✦ Subjects

Child and School Psychology; Language Education; Applied Linguistics; Educational Psychology; Neuropsychology; Social Work