DORA is a comprehensive, valid, and reliable web-based assessment that diagnostically assesses students' 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 testing anywhere with an Internet connection.
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 each 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 literacy intervention programs, and time and cost savings. DORA is ideal for automating a learning center's diagnostic assessment process, which is often paper-based and labor-intensive. Individual student reports are instantly available for teachers to download, view, or print.
These reports may be used to:
Guide individualized instruction
Easily share students' reading profiles with parents and prescribe activities for home instruction
Deliver accurate measures of student progress and standards achievement to parents
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