Interventions for Children With Attention and Reading Disorders

Rating Scale of ADHD symptomology completed by parents and teachers. Raters evaluate how well each DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) ADHD symptom describes a child on a four-point Likert scale (0=Not at all, 1=Just a little, 2=Quite a bit, 3=Very much). The measure shows adequate internal consistency (.94) and test-retest reliability (Bussing et al., 2008; Gau et al., 2008).

Rating Scale of ADHD symptomology completed by parents and teachers. Raters evaluate how well each DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) ADHD symptom describes a child on a four-point Likert scale (0=Not at all, 1=Just a little, 2=Quite a bit, 3=Very much). The measure shows adequate internal consistency (.94) and test-retest reliability (Bussing et al., 2008; Gau et al., 2008).

Rating Scale of ADHD symptomology completed by parents and teachers. Raters evaluate how well each DSM-IV ADHD symptom describes a child on a four-point Likert scale (0=Not at all, 1=Just a little, 2=Quite a bit, 3=Very much). The measure shows adequate internal consistency (.94) and test-retest reliability (Bussing et al., 2008; Gau et al., 2008).

Rating Scale of ADHD symptomology completed by parents and teachers. Raters evaluate how well each DSM-IV ADHD symptom describes a child on a four-point Likert scale (0=Not at all, 1=Just a little, 2=Quite a bit, 3=Very much). The measure shows adequate internal consistency (.94) and test-retest reliability (Bussing et al., 2008; Gau et al., 2008).

The WIAT-III is an individually-administered test of academic achievement. In the Word Reading subtest students read a list of increasingly difficult words. Scores reported here are standardized scores with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15.

The WIAT-III is an individually-administered test of academic achievement. In the Pseudoword Decoding subtest students read a list of increasingly difficult nonsense words as a test of their ability to use phonics to decode unknown words. Scores reported here are standardized scores with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Higher scores represent a better outcome.

The WIAT-III is an individually-administered test of academic achievement. This subtest involves reading sentences and longer passages and then answering a set of literal and inferential comprehension questions about the text. Scores reported here are standardized scores with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Higher scores represent a better outcome.

DIBELS ORF measures oral reading fluency in connected text. Students are presented with a passage on their grade level to read orally, and the score is the number of words of the passage read correctly in a one-minute period. Students in this study read two passages at each test administration, and the mean score for the two passages was the dependent variable analyzed. A research synthesis of studies reporting psychometric properties for DIBELS ORF determined that reliability coefficients in these studies exceeded .80 and that the measure demonstrated moderate to high concurrent and predictive validity across studies (Goffreda & DiPerna, 2010).

The TOWRE Sight Word Efficiency subtest measures fluency of reading words in lists. The raw score is the number of words or nonwords identified correctly in 45 seconds. Standard scores with a mean of 100 and standard deviaion of 15 are reported here. Higher scores represent a better outcome.

The TOWRE Phonemic Decoding Efficiency measures the student's fluent decoding of nonsense words that follow the spelling rules of the English language. The raw score is the number of nonwords identified correctly in 45 seconds. Standardized scores with a mean of 100 and standard deviaion of 15 are reported here. Higher scores represent a better outcome.

The TOSREC measures sentence-level comprehension and silent reading fluency. It is a sentence verification task; children are presented with a list of sentences and must tell whether they are true or false. Items are based on common knowledge (e.g., All apples are blue). The raw score is the number of items answered correctly in 3 minutes. Standardized with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15 are reported here. Higher scores represent a better outcome.