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.

Revised and restandardised by the Educational Assessment Unit
at the University of Edinburgh

Fully updated, streamlined, restandardised and now quicker and easier to administer to whole classes, the new ERT series retains the diagnostic profiles which have always enhanced it values as an individual assessment and group screening instrument. These 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-ROMS providing:

• computerised diagnostic profiling;
  
• 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 has also proved popular with LEAs for annual, authority-wide standards monitoring.

The series comprises four overlapping tests (for ages 7-9, 8:6 - 10:6, 10-12:6, and 11:7 - 16+), each of which assesses a range of different literacy skills (e.g. vocabulary, sequencing, comprehension of points of view - see panel) and which in turn provide a diagnostic information that will inform teaching throughout each year, and are not designed solely for end-of-year assessment.

Please click on one of the links below to find out more about each title:

This comprehensive service offers secondary schools and LEAs a confidential performance analysis portfolio, focusing on GCSE results relative to expectations based on prior ability tests such as the Edinburgh Reading Test 4 (taken from Year 7 onwards), and A level results compared with pupils' previous GCSE results.

The range of detailed analyses enables you to look in turn at individual pupils, subject departments and whole-school year cohorts. Schools using the Edinburgh Reading Test can also compare their results anonymously with other schools having similar indicator profiles.

For full information, contact:
by post: SPA, 42 Greenway Close, Wincanton, Somerset BA9 9RH
by email: info@bstubbs.co.uk
web: www.bstubbs.co.uk

All enquiries should be made to SPA direct: this service is not provided by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.