DORA is a comprehensive, valid, and reliable web-based assessment that diagnostically assesses English Language Learners' reading abilities. Functioning like a reading specialist, it adapts to students as they respond to each question in the online program, getting harder or easier as needed to complete the diagnosis. DORA's interactive style makes testing fun, engages students, and enables them to initiate tests remotely.
- Measures eight sub-skills of reading
- K-12 content adapts to each learner's ability in real-time
- Interactive technology features a mix of audio, text, and multimedia images to engage all students
The eight sub-skills of reading assessed by DORA are: high-frequency words, word recognition, phonics, phonemic awareness, oral vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, and fluency. By examining multiple reading measures together, DORA reveals a student's unique reading profile.
Fast, Powerful Results
DORA's web-based platform allows for practical deployment of assessments, leading to dramatic reading score improvement, the enrichment of ESL programs, and time and cost savings. DORA is ideal for automating any ESL diagnostic reading assessment process, which is often paper-based and labor-intensive. Individual student and classroom reports are instantly available for teachers and administrators to download, view, or print.
These reports may be used to:
- Guide both individual and classroom instruction
- Easily share students' reading profiles with parents and prescribe activities for home instruction
- Deliver accurate measures of student progress and standards achievement to administrators
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