What was the norming sample for SRI?
The normative information that informs SRI is based on a large sample of students in a medium to large state in the U.S. The demographics of the sample were similar to the school-age population in the United States as a whole: 66.3% White, 29.3% African-American, 1.7% Native American (American Indian), 1.2% Hispanic, 1.0% Asian, and 0.6% Other. Less than 1% (0.7%) were classified “limited English proficient,” and 10.1% were classified “students with disabilities.” Approximately 40% were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and approximately half of the schools in the state had some form of Title 1 program. Finally, the distribution of scores for students in the sample on norm-referenced and other standardized measures of reading comprehension (other than SRI) was similar to those reported for national samples.
