IREST CHILDREN

The IBRA* project
*International Battery for Reading Assessment
Giacomo Stella
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
EDA
A project for a common reading
assessment battery in Europe
• A set of comparable instruments to test
reading acquisition and performance in
different languages
• to obtain a standard battery useful in EU
countries
• Use standardized measure for multilinguage
studies
• To have estimation of dyslexia prevalence in
different countries using the same battery
Irest project
standardized texts to assess reading performance, for multiple
equivalent texts for repeated measurements, and for texts
equated across languages for multi-language studies were
obtained from the IREST project
IREST ChilDREN
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We have text in 17 different languages
Adult measures (from 18 to 35 y.o.)
What about children?
From which grade is it possible to use the
same text?
• Do we need some other instruments to assess
reading performance at early stages?
Steps toward the IBRA project
International Battery for Reading Assessment
1. looking for existing instruments available to
study early stages of reading acquisition
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Letterchain
Wordchain
2. Check if IREST materials fits requirements for
assessing also children primary school reading
performance
Reading Performances in italian 4° and
5° grades students
100
90
80
70
60
4^ grade
50
5^grade
40
30
20
10
0
negozio
castoro
zone
colori
minacce
Reliability of IREST test battery in
Italian
250
200
Series1
150
Series2
Series3
Series4
100
Series5
Series6
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Changes across ages
wd/min
200
180
160
140
120
100
wd/min
80
60
40
20
0
4^grade
5^ grade
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