While not technically a research article I suppose, I thought
Nina L. Nilsson piece in April 08 issue of The Reading Teacher
was useful and interesting. Nilsson compares eight IRIs on a
variety of issues and discusses aspects of their validity. The
eight tests she looks at are: - Analytical Reading Inventory
(ARI; Woods & Moe, 2007) - Bader Reading and Language Inventory
(BRLI; Bader, 2005) - Basic Reading Inventory (BRI; Johns, 2005)
- Classroom Reading Inventory (CRI-SW; Silvaroli & Wheelock,
2004) - Comprehensive Reading Inventory (CRI-CFC; Cooter, Flynt,
& Cooter, 2007) - Informal Reading Inventory (IRI-BR; Burns &
Roe, 2007) - Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (QRI-4; Leslie &
Caldwell, 2006) - The Critical Reading Inventory (CRI-2;
Applegate, Quinn, & Applegate, 2008). She concludes with a
section on picking a test to use.