Is SRI useful for predicting students’ results on end-of-year state tests?
Research conducted by Scholastic, along with research conducted independently by educators using SRI, has demonstrated that there is a strong and positive correlation between results obtained by SRI and state end-of-year assessments. In particular, when SRI is administered early in the school year, results can be used to identify students who may be at risk for not achieving the targeted proficiency levels in reading on end-of-year assessments. While all students can be tested and monitored throughout the school year with SRI, certainly students in the lowest quartile (and perhaps the lowest two quartiles) should be targeted for instructional intervention and their progress monitored throughout the year. When used in a programmatic way, SRI can serve as a valuable tool for evaluating the effectiveness of a particular intervention. Moreover, because SRI reports student results on a criterion-referenced scale that indicates the difficulty of materials that a student can read, it can also
