Test of Word Reading Efficiency Second Edition is a measure of an individual’s ability to pronounce printed words and phonemically regular nonwords accurately and fluently.
Test of Word Reading Efficiency | Second Edition
TOWRE-2
Test of Word Reading Efficiency Second Edition is a measure of an individual’s ability to pronounce printed words and phonemically regular nonwords accurately and fluently.
Overview
Product Details
- Age range:
- 6:0-24:11
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Qualification level:
- B
TOWRE-2 provides an efficient means of monitoring the growth of two kinds of word reading skill that are critical in the development of overall reading ability.
Benefits
- Use for early detection, diagnosis of disabilities, and research purposes.
- Assess the number of real printed words that can be accurately identified within 45 seconds.
- Measure the number of pronounceable printed non-words that can be accurately decoded within 45 seconds.
Features
TOWRE-2 can be used to monitor progress in growth of word-level reading skills three or four times per year.
- Two new subtests: Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) and Phonetic Decoding Efficiency (PDE).
- Each of the two subtests has four alternate forms, A through D.
- Any of the forms of each subtest may be given depending on the purposes of the assessment.
- Uses norms from over 1,700 individuals ranging in age from 6 to 24 years and residing in 12 states and Washington, DC.
