Publication Date
10-1-1987
Abstract
Reading educators (Cheek & Cheek, 1983; Roe, Stoodt, & Burns, 1978) urge secondary teachers to use informal reading inventories (IRIs) in order to diagnose students' reading problems and to place students in textbooks at appropriate levels to optimize instruction. Advice of this nature is surely well-intended; nevertheless, educators have reservations about the merits of available IRIs. For example, readability levels of IRI passages (Gerke, 1980), passage dependency of questions (Marr & Lyon, 1980; Tuinman, 1971), classification of questions (Shell & Hanna, 1981), scoring criteria (Bormuth, 1969), validity (Cooper, 1952; Powell, 1971), and allowable errors or miscues (Ekwall, 1971; Harris & Sipay, 1980) have been the focus of serious questions by reading researchers.
Recommended Citation
Olson, M. W., & Gillis, M. K. (1987). Text Type And Text Structure: An Analysis Of Three Secondary Informal Reading Inventories. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 28 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol28/iss1/10
