Article: Monitoring children with reading disabilities' response to phonics intervention: are there differences between intervention aligned and general skill progress monitoring assessments?

Traditionally, assessment in special education has focused on identifying students in need of special education through the use of standardized measures (Deno, 1997). Although this type of assessment has had an important historical role in special education, the use of norm-referenced tests has been shown to be unreliable for use in monitoring student progress over time (Deno, 1992). Assessments used for progress-monitoring assessments need to be sensitive to small changes in skills over a period of time. As special educators are becoming more responsible for ensuring effective interventions for students, there is a need for reliable and valid assessments that can ...

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