Review and/or Usage Links

Many educationalists use the Waddington Diagnostic Reading, Spelling and Math Tests. Here are just a few examples:

http://www.aare.edu.au/01pap/god01617.htm

http://www.stgeorged.det.nsw.edu.au/showcase/readingvolunteers/ch9_5.html

http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/projects/real_men_read.html

http://www.readingrecovery.org/research/effectiveness/Center_Wheldall_Freeman_Outhred_McNaught.asp

http://www.pa.ash.org.au/tadpoles/benchk.htm

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/ajedp/Archive/Volume_4/v4-bourne-whiting.pdf

http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/learning/technology/docs/cms-criteria.pdf

http://www.readingrecovery.org/pdf/research/Experimental_Evaluation-Center-etal.pdf

http://www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/PDF/Spalding.pdf

http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:BAiH6wP9begJ:education.qld.gov.au/community/events/showcase/docs/gladstone.pdf+waddington+reading+tests&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=au

http://www.speld-sa.org.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=141&category_id=7&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=47&vmcchk=1&Itemid=47

http://iwest.myinternet.syd.catholic.edu.au/sp_ed/screen_tests.html

http://www.pac.edu.au/repositories/files/BenchmarkTable.pdf

Studies / Use By Others:

2010 OLPC NT Study using the Waddington diagnostic tests in Reading, Spelling and Numeracy in seven primary schools with two classes in each school ~ 350 students. One of the classes will receive laptops, the other will not. The schools are Braitling, Bradshaw, Ross Park, Gillen, Sadadeen, Larapinta and Ntaria (Hermansburg). The plan is to conduct the tests prior to distributing the laptops and at the end of the trial, then compare results with the similar classes which do not have laptops. Ian Paul Cunningham Project Officer Technology, Information and Planning NT Department of Education and Training Ph: 08 89516816 Link to OLPC Wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/One-to-One_Laptop_Schools/Australia

"The purchase will be used to strengthen literacy monitoring and evaluation, particularly within the TVET National Bislama Literacy Project."
DME Program Coordinator 2006/2007, World Vision Vanuatu

Two Studies on the Effectiveness of Contiguous, Graphemic and Phonological Interventions on Measures of Reading and Spelling, R J Bourne, Master of Philosophy in Education University of Sydney, University of Sydney 2002.

To test or not to test? The selection and analysis of an instrument to assess literacy skills of Indigenous children : a pilot study, John R Godfrey, Gary Partington and Anna Sinclair, Edith Cowan University and the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, 2001

Evaluation of a Standardised Test, Suzanne Speers, University of New England NSW, 2000

PA-EFL: A Phonological Awareness Program For Indigenous EFL Students With Hearing Disabilities http://writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej16/cf1.html

Academic Review / Assessment of the Waddington Diagnostic Reading Tests by Marian Haselton, 2004

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