DIBELS vs QRI-5

After doing examples of both the DIBELS and QRI-5 evaluation I have learned a lot about both. Each of these is an evaluation on the reading comprehension of the students. The DIEBELS evaluation has many more technical parts to it. It breaks down the pronunciation and parts of the words as a student goes through to identify the words. It does letter recognition as well as sounds of letters and parts of word pronunciation to really break apart the students reading abilities. DIBELS also offers something more similar to the QRI-5 evaluation where the student reads a passage and then is asked comprehensive questions after to determine the comprehension. The QRI-5 seems to focus more on general reading skills and comprehension, while it provides word lists and different leveled reading passages as well as comprehensive questions for each passage it is not as technical as the DIBELS seems to be. Also DIBELS is timed in 60 second intervals and nothing more, while the QRI-5 is timed based on the student so they have no time restraints. Each of these evaluations is a great tool to use on your students. You could even use them hand in hand if you wanted to really break down your students reading comprehension abilities. I do think that DIEBELS gets into more technical aspects of word recognition then the QRI-5 does, but however I do believe that they are both excellent options that I would use in my classroom with my students.