Marcia Invernizzi

The Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening in Spanish (PALS español) is an assessment administered in Spanish each fall and spring to Spanish-speaking students in grades K-3 to determine whether they are making adequate progress in learning to read and also to provide instructionally useful diagnostic information to teachers. This assessment, developed through another IES grant (Designing Assessment to Enhance English Literacy Development Among Spanish-Speaking Children in Grades K...

On the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 49% of Hispanic fourth-graders (compared to 77% of non-Hispanic White fourth-graders) and only 57% of Hispanic eighth-graders (compared to 83% of non-Hispanic White eighth-graders) scored at or above the basic level in reading. In order to support the development of good reading skills, accurate assessment and identification of strengths and weaknesses early in development is of critical importance. Reading assessments administe...