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Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-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-16ages 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)
Total Reading Full Scale
ReadinessVisual Auditory
Learning
Letter Identification
Basic Skills
Word identification
Word Attack
ComprehensionWord
comprehensionPassage
comprehension
ReadinessForm G Only
• Visual Auditory learning– A task to determine if the student can
associate symbols with words– Tests memory, attention, grouping of word
parts (i.e., ing with verbs)
• Letter identification– Alphabet recognition– Different fonts– Print and cursive
Basic Skills
• Test 3: Word identification– Reading words– Begins with one word on a page and
advances to multiple words– 106 items in increasing difficulty– The student does not need to know what any
of the words mean– Average score for a kindergarten student is 1– Average score for a student in 12th grade is 96
Basic Skills
• Test 4: Word Attack
• Reading two types of words– Nonsense words– Words with very low frequency usage
• Measures the ability to apply phonic and structural analytic skills
• Training is provided so the student will know how to approach the test
Comprehension
• Test 5: Word Comprehension– 3 subtests– Each begins with sample items– Training continues until competes the item
correctly.
• Subtest 5A: Antonyms– Measures ability to read a word and respond
orally with a word opposite in meaning
Comprehension
• Subtest 5B: Synonyms– Comprehension of reading vocabulary– Read a word and state another word similar in
meaning– Synonyms are “a more 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 second pair, – use the same relationship to supply a word to
complete 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 procedure– Short passage with a blank line– Student supplies a word that “fits” in the blank– The first 1/3 of the passage are one sentence
long and have a picture related to the text
Administration
• The test battery will take an experienced tester about 45 minutes
• Test by complete pages
• Follow the basal rules– Start at the points indicated in the tables in
the test easel– If the student is correct on the first 6 items, a
basal is established.– If less than 6 are correct, go back a page and
administer the whole page.– Continue to test backwards starting with the
first item on a page until the first 6 on a page are correctly answered
• Ceiling rules– 6 or more consecutively failed items that end
with the last item on a test page.– See 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
it 0 and say the word and ask the student to repeat it• NO OTHER WORDS WILL BE READ TO THE STUDENT
• WRITE what the student said for incorrect responses
• Write comments the student says
Word attack
• If the student scores 0 or 1 on the word identification, a score of 0 can be recorded for Word Attack – (For our practice, don’t do this)
• Begin with the 2 sample items; then proceed to item 1
• Study the pronunciation guide (p. 28-29)• The student must answer within 5 seconds• The “word” must be read naturally –not sunded
out for the final reading• WRITE what the student says
Word comprehension
• For all three subtests, the student reads the item aloud and responds orally
• Only single word responses are acceptable
• Mispronunciations are not errors
• WRITE what the student says
• Begin with the practice item in each subtest
Scoring
• Score as you administer the test
• Score 1 or 0 by the item
• Write any comments and erroneous responses
• Raw score is the sum of correct responses plus 1 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 Test 5 subtests
• The designation for each response is coded on the test record– G general reading– SM science and math– SOC social studies– H humanities
Age and grade calculations
• Age is standard- use the AGS calculator if you wish
• Grade placement is by tenths of the school year– See table in the test protocol or on page 32
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