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Adaptations of the Names Test: Easy‐to‐Use Phonics Assessments
Author(s) -
Mather Nancy,
Sammons Janice,
Schwartz Jonathan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.60.2.2
Subject(s) - phonics , test (biology) , psychology , mathematics education , proper noun , sample (material) , primary education , natural language processing , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , philosophy , biology , chemistry , chromatography
In 1990, Cunningham developed a Names Test as a quick and easy screening tool for teachers to obtain information about a student's decoding skills. In 1994, Duffelmeyer, Kruse, Merkley, and Fyfe added 10 names to the original Names Test and developed a comprehensive scoring matrix to increase diagnostic information from the test, based on error patterns. The purposes of the present study were twofold:To administer the augmented Names Test to a sample of students and then reorder the first and last names by difficulty level To create a downward extension of the Names Test that would be more appropriate for use with first‐ and second‐grade students, as well as with struggling readers