Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised

Purpose

• The Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised-Normative Update is a comprehensive individual assessment of reading ability. The WRMU-R was re-normed in 1995-96.

Appropriate for:

Grades K-16ages 5 years 0 months through 75

Time – 10-30 minutes for each cluster of individually administered tests

Reliability

Internal reliability

• Tests median = .91 (range .68 to .98)

• Clusters median = .95 (range .87 to .98)

• Total median = .97 (range .86 to .99)

Total Reading Full Scale

ReadinessVisual Auditory

Learning

Letter Identification

Basic Skills

Word identification

Word Attack

ComprehensionWord

comprehensionPassage

comprehension

ReadinessForm G Only

• Visual Auditory learning– A task to determine if the student can

associate symbols with words– Tests memory, attention, grouping of word

parts (i.e., ing with verbs)

• Letter identification– Alphabet recognition– Different fonts– Print and cursive

Basic Skills

• Test 3: Word identification– Reading words– Begins with one word on a page and

advances to multiple words– 106 items in increasing difficulty– The student does not need to know what any

of the words mean– Average score for a kindergarten student is 1– Average score for a student in 12th grade is 96

Basic Skills

• Test 4: Word Attack

• Reading two types of words– Nonsense words– Words with very low frequency usage

• Measures the ability to apply phonic and structural analytic skills

• Training is provided so the student will know how to approach the test

Comprehension

• Test 5: Word Comprehension– 3 subtests– Each begins with sample items– Training continues until competes the item

correctly.

• Subtest 5A: Antonyms– Measures ability to read a word and respond

orally with a word opposite in meaning

Comprehension

• Subtest 5B: Synonyms– Comprehension of reading vocabulary– Read a word and state another word similar in

meaning– Synonyms are “a more difficult cognitive

processing task than Antonyms.” p. 7

Comprehension

• Subtest 5C: Analogies– Read a pair of words; – ascertain the relationship, – read the first word of the second pair, – use the same relationship to supply a word to

complete the analogy

• Demonstrates content embedded word knowledge

Word comprehension reading vocabularies

• General reading

• Science-mathematics

• Social studies

• Humanities

Comprehension

• Test 6: Passage Comprehension

• Modified cloze procedure– Short passage with a blank line– Student supplies a word that “fits” in the blank– The first 1/3 of the passage are one sentence

long and have a picture related to the text

Administration

• The test battery will take an experienced tester about 45 minutes

• Test by complete pages

• Follow the basal rules– Start at the points indicated in the tables in

the test easel– If the student is correct on the first 6 items, a

basal is established.– If less than 6 are correct, go back a page and

administer the whole page.– Continue to test backwards starting with the

first item on a page until the first 6 on a page are correctly answered

• Ceiling rules– 6 or more consecutively failed items that end

with the last item on a test page.– See page 22 for an example of basal and

ceiling scoring

Word identification

• MUST know how to pronounce the words in the test (p. 28-29)

• A table of suggested starting points is provided in the easel– If the student does not respond to the first item, score

it 0 and say the word and ask the student to repeat it• NO OTHER WORDS WILL BE READ TO THE STUDENT

• WRITE what the student said for incorrect responses

• Write comments the student says

Word attack

• If the student scores 0 or 1 on the word identification, a score of 0 can be recorded for Word Attack – (For our practice, don’t do this)

• Begin with the 2 sample items; then proceed to item 1

• Study the pronunciation guide (p. 28-29)• The student must answer within 5 seconds• The “word” must be read naturally –not sunded

out for the final reading• WRITE what the student says

Word comprehension

• For all three subtests, the student reads the item aloud and responds orally

• Only single word responses are acceptable

• Mispronunciations are not errors

• WRITE what the student says

• Begin with the practice item in each subtest

Scoring

• Score as you administer the test

• Score 1 or 0 by the item

• Write any comments and erroneous responses

• Raw score is the sum of correct responses plus 1 point for every item below the basal

Scoring word comprehension

• Antonyms and Synonyms combined score– Calculate the score for each subtest– Add them– Convert this raw score to a part score– Record in the box labeled 5A+5B part score– Covert the Analogies raw score to a part

score– Sum both part scores for a Word

comprehension W score

Reading vocabularies

• Count the correct responses for the Test 5 subtests

• The designation for each response is coded on the test record– G general reading– SM science and math– SOC social studies– H humanities

Age and grade calculations

• Age is standard- use the AGS calculator if you wish

• Grade placement is by tenths of the school year– See table in the test protocol or on page 32