DIBELS vs QRI-5

The QRI-5 and DIBLES have many similarities as well as differences. DIBLES is administered with a book but can be scored on paper or a digital device (palm pilot). The QRI-5 tests for various forms of fluency during oral or silent reading. The teacher can record miscues while listening to the student read orally and ask various comprehension questions. DIBLES when using the digital device to record data can account for a lot more than just student fluency. We can learn if the student knows initial sounds, phoneme segmentations, or even nonsense word fluency. This allows for the teacher to get a more in depth look at their phonological awareness where as with the QRI-5 this really isn't possible. However like the QRI-5 the teacher is able to listen while a student reads a passage and record the student’s errors. I felt that when practicing with the DIBLES having to listen to the recordings and not being the one prompting the student made it difficult to record the data because it was really fast passed. If I were able to practice with a student I feel it would be easy to become efficient in scoring. The one thing that would be difficult would be to remember how to score each of the tests that are available to give. I feel it would be important if using DIBLES in your class that you refresh how you would score each exam to make certain that you are competent.