The Development of Oral Reading Fluency Assessments with Automatic Speech Recognition in CBMSkills. Technical Report #2302

This technical report describes the development of oral reading fluency passages for use in the CBMSkills assessment system. Seventeen passages were created for each of Grades 1 through 5. Passages were designed to target the fluency component of a developmental model of reading. All passages were written with the specification to use language and structure common for the grade level with similar cultural sensitivity and lack of bias to modern classroom materials. Each fictional passage was between 100 to 110 words in length. All passages were reviewed and edited by two experts in reading assessment for errors (e.g., format and grammatical), and bias (e.g., gender, cultural, religious, and geographical).