Summary:
Fully updated, streamlined, restandardised and now quicker and easier to administer to whole classes, the updated ERT series retains the diagnostic profiles which have always enhanced its value as an individual assessment and group screening instrument. Major new editions provide up-to-date norms (as both standardised scores and Reading Ages) and allow effective monitoring of progress in reading across the full ability range, from age 7 to 16+.

PLUS now with Scorer/Profiler CD-ROM giving computerised diagnostic profiling and a comprehensive package of individual and group performance analyses.

The ERT series has long been popular with class teachers as well as special needs and support teachers wanting more than just a simplistic, global measure of reading attainment. The series comprises four overlapping tests (for ages 7–9, 8:6–10:6, 10–12:6, and 11:7–16+), each of which assess a range of different literacy skills (eg vocabulary, comprehension of points of view and sequences, etc) and which in turn provide an diagnostic profile highlighting each pupil's particular strengths and weaknesses. Unlike QCA national and optional tests, therefore, the ERT series yields meaningful diagnostic information that will inform teaching throughout each year, and are not designed solely for end-of-year assessment.

ERT1-3 have all been restandardised on consecutive yeargroups within the same group of schools, bringing continuity, consistency and progression to the norms across the primary age range. These schools, from across the country, were themselves carefully identified to form a standardisation sample which, collectively, approximates closely to national average performance standards as measured by statutory tests at Key Stages 1 and 2. The tests now provide Reading Ages across a wider abilty range, as well as standardised scores.

Administered in two sessions of 25 minutes, ERT1 gives for each pupil a reliable overall assessment of reading and separate diagnostic profile of vocabulary, syntax, sequences, and comprehension. Available in two parallel forms A and B, the item content and contexts have been fully updated and reillustrated, and the test completely restandardised on more than 8000 pupils.

• Fully updated, reillustrated and restandardised edition of this popular test for 7-9 year olds.
• For each pupil, gives a diagnostic profile highlighting individual strengths and weaknesses in key literacy skills, as well as a standardised score and Reading Age.
• Edinburgh Reading Tests series constructed to a high technical standard: synonymous with quality in assessment.
• A group test, easily given to whole classes, with parallel forms A & B to help prevent copying.

About the Author(s):
Revised and restandardised by the Educational Assessment Unit at the University of Edinburgh.

Readership:
Primary schools