Assessments for Middle and High School
Asses Assessment sment
Test of Reading
Comprehension (TORC-3)
(Ages 7-17)
Group Reading
Assessment and
Diagnostic Evaluation
(GRADE) (Ages: 5-Adult)
Scholastic Reading
Inventory (Ages 6-17)
CORE Reading Maze
Comprehension Test
(Grades 2-10)
CORE Vocabulary
Screening (Grades 1-8)
Degrees of Reading Power
(DRP) (Grades 1-12)
Burns/Roe Informal
Reading Inventory
(Ages 5-18)
Reading Inventory for the
Classroom, 4th Ed. (Grades
K-12)
Gray Oral Reading TestDiagnostic (GORT-D) (Ages
5-12)
CORE Phonics Survey,
Grades K-12
Assesses
Comprehension, vocabulary,
Syntactic similarities, paragraph
reading, sentence sequencing.
Measures content area
vocabulary in Math, Social
Studies, and Science.
Comprehension, vocabulary,
English Skills
Vocabulary, fluency, passage
details, cause and effect
relationships, sequencing,
drawing conclusions, making
connections, and
generalizations
Measures how well students
understand text they read
silently.
Measures how well students
know the meaning of gradelevel words they read silently.
Measures reading
comprehension using nonfiction
and prose paragraphs that are
similar to CLOZE Procedure
Comprehension, retellings,
graded word lists for placement
with graded reading selections
Reading of connected text, word
analysis, comprehension,
miscue analysis, listening
comprehension
Paragraph reading, decoding,
word identification, word
attack, morphemic analysis,
contextual analysis, and word
ordering
Measures the ability to use
knowledge of sound/letter
correspondences to decode
words
Group or Individual
Administration/Time
Individual/Group, 30
minutes
Publisher
AGS Publishing 1995
PRO-ED, 1995 Brown,
Hammill, Wiederholt
Group, 60-90 minutes
AGS Publishing, 2000
Williams, Cassidy,
Samuels
Computerized
individual assessment
Scholastic
Individual/Group,
3 minutes
CORE
Individual/Group,
10-20 minutes
CORE
Individual/Group,
Untimed
Touchstone Applied
Science Associations,
Inc. (TASA)
Individual
Riverside, 1999 Roe
Individual
Prentice Hall, 2001
Individual
PRO-ED, 1991
Individual,
10-15 minutes
CORE
Assessments for Middle and High School
Assessment
Gray Silent Reading Test
(Ages 7-25)
Qualitative Reading
Inventory-3rd Ed. (QRI-III),
(Ages 6-13)
Gates-MacGinitie Reading
Test, 4th Ed. (Grades K-12)
Woodcock Reading
Mastery, revised (Grades
K-12)
Stanford Diagnostic
Reading Test – 4th Ed.,
(SDRT-4) (Grades 1-12)
Analytical Reading
Inventory, 6th Ed., (Grades
K-12)
CORE Phoneme
Segmentation Test
Assesses
Measures silent reading and
comprehension
Assesses oral reading accuracy,
rate, strategies, comprehension,
word identification
General Assessment of reading
achievement, vocabulary/word
knowledge, comprehension
Evaluates visual auditory
learning, letter identification,
word identification, word
comprehension, and passage
comprehension
Identifies specific strengths and
weaknesses in phonetic analysis
Vocabulary, comprehension,
and scanning
Contains narrative and
expository passages designed to
assess level of instruction,
strategies to recognize words
and comprehend books, oral
and silent reading performance.
Measures the student’s ability
to break a word into its
component phonemes or
sounds.
Group or Individual
Administration/Time
Individual
Publisher
PRO-ED, 2000
Individual
Allyn and Bacon, 2000
Individual or group,
55-105 minutes
Riverside, 1998
Individual, 90
minutes
AGS Publishing, 1998
Group, 90 minutes
Harcourt, Inc.
Individual
Prentice Hall
Individual
5-10 minutes
CORE