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For adult readers, an automated system can produce oral reading fluency (ORF) scores (e.g., words read correctly per minute) that are consistent with scores provided by human evaluators (Balogh et al., 2005, and in press). Balogh's work on NAAL materials used passage-specific data to optimize statistical language models and scoring performance. The current study investigates whether or not an automated system can produce scores for young children's reading that are consistent with human scores. A novel aspect of the present study is that text-independent rule-based language models were employed to score reading passages that the system had never seen before. Oral reading performances were collected over cell phones from 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd grade children (n = 95) in a classroom environment. Readings were scored 1) in situ by teachers in the classroom, 2) later by expert scorers, and 3) by an automated system. Statistical analyses provide evidence that machine Words Correct scores correlate well with scores provided by teachers and expert scorers, with all (Pearson's correlation coefficient) r's > 0.98 at the individual response level, and all r's > 0.99 at the "test" level (i.e.

Author

Ryan Downey ; David Rubin ; Jian Cheng ; Jared Bernstein

Published

1970

Language

EN