About the Measure
| Domains | Literacy |
| Subscales | No |
| Target Construct | Literacy: Word reading, Sentence reading, Reading fluency |
| Description | The Diagnostic Test of Word Reading Processes makes available to teachers a diagnostic tool that has long been used in research studies, and that enables precise specification of the areas of difficulty experienced by individual children in developing fluent and automatic word reading. |
| Test Authors | Forum for Research in Literacy and Language |
| Publisher | GL-Assessment (2012) |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| Respondent | Child |
| Prior knowledge Required | Accessible for teachers |
| Scoring | Clear scoring and coding |
| Time | 30 minutes |
| Age | 5 years to 12 years |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | YES |
| Norm / Criterion referenced | Norm referenced |
| Standardisation sample | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate. |
| Reliability | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate |
| Criterion validity | Driven by the simple view of reading and capturing all aspects of word reading |
| Construct validity | Cronbach alpha 0.96 on both forms of the Word Reading Test, and 0.97 for the Sentence Reading Test. |
| Concurrent validity | Cronbach alpha 0.96 on both forms of the Word Reading Test, and 0.97 for the Sentence Reading Test. |