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Diagnostic tools can be informal and user-friendly, or they can be standardized and require a high fidelity of administration. They can be as simple as a word list or as complex as a reading intervention assessment.
Example Tool: Universal Protocol for Accommodations in Reading (uPAR)
Example Tool: Universal Protocol for Accommodations in Reading (uPAR)
The Universal Protocol for Accommodations in Reading (uPAR) is a personal precision diagnostic tool that shows the text level a student can comprehend with a reading accommodation. It provides comparison data on decoding and language comprehension by analyzing the student's use of print, audio recordings, and text-to-speech supports.
This chart shows the following data for an 8th-grade student.
Silent Reading - reads independently at the 5th grade level in the middle two quartiles.
Human Audio - comprehends text content at the 8th-grade level in the upper quartile. Comprehends text content at the 10th grade level in the middle two quartiles.
Text Reader - comprehends text content at the 8th-grade level in the upper quartile. Comprehends text content at the 9th grade level in the middle two quartiles.
Data chats are an important part of the administration of this protocol. Many struggling readers are extremely encouraged when they see that their text comprehension is at grade level or higher.
The free version (the PAR) is paper-based and can be downloaded from the website. The online version (uPAR) is a computer-based pay service that tracks student responses and generates data and charts. It also provides summary reports that include all the results from a school, district, or organization.
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