DIBELS 8th Edition Resources

This timeline shows the administration periods for each of the DIBELS 8^th Edition measures.

Student benchmark goals for all grades.

This document supplements the DIBELS 8th Edition Administration and Scoring Guide.

Handout with information to help families understand DIBELS scores. This also includes resources with additional information about screening and partnering with the school for literacy success.

Consejos DIBELS para familias: Folleto con información para ayudar a las familias a comprender los puntajes DIBELS. Esto también incluye recursos con información adicional sobre la evaluación y la asociación con la escuela para el éxito en la alfabetización.

This white paper summarizes changes to DIBELS measures and provides evidence to support the use of early screening tools such as DIBELS to screen for dyslexia and help educators intervene before significant reading difficulties materialize, thus reducing the number of students characterized with learning disabilities.

These worksheets provide teachers and other education professionals one strategy for determining the instructional needs of their students based on a pattern of performance on two or more DIBELS 8th Edition assessments.

This document describes various approaches in collecting school-wide DIBELS data.

Terminology Representing Years of Schooling on the Australasian Version of DIBELS 8th Edition

A researcher from the Center on Teaching and Learning describes each of the DIBELS 8th Edition measures. This includes a brief overview, what literacy skills are assessed and the time to administer each measure.

Building literacy doesn't stop on the last day of second grade. So how can we ensure students continue building on their literacy in the critical upper elementary and middle grades? The answer is data. Watch this video on how to use that data to help students achieve their potential and continue their journey with the Science of Reading.

This short video gives a basic overview of the difference between criterion referencing and norm referencing and how that relates to benchmark goals and percentiles for DIBELS®.