Characteristics of Word Callers: An Investigation of the Accuracy of Teachers' Judgments of Reading Comprehension and Oral Reading Skills

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Oral Reading and Maze Measures as Predictors of Success for English Learners on a State Standards Assessment (2005, background): “Hamilton and Shinn (2003) explored the idea of “word callers” by examining whether oral reading measures overestimated the ability of students who can decode but not comprehend.”
Oral Reading Fluency Norms: A Valuable Assessment Tool for Reading Teachers (2006, background): “Some educators have expressed apprehension about the use of a very short measure of what may appear as a single, isolated reading skill to make a determination about a student's proficiency in the highly complex set of processes involved in the task of reading (Hamilton & Shinn, 2003).”
Literature Synthesis on Curriculum-Based Measurement in Reading (2007, background): “We note that the Hamilton and Shinn (2003) study did not address the actual existence of word callers, just teachers’ judgment of word callers.”
The Complex Nature of Reading Fluency: A Multidimensional View (2008, background): “Hamilton and Shinn (2003) investigated this phenomenon by comparing the reading fluency and comprehension of teacher-identified word callers (WC) and similarlyfluent peers (SFP).”