Case Studies and Testimonials

Cardinal Griffin Catholic College

DRA gives an excellent insight into both comprehension and accuracy.

Bedale C of E Primary School

DRA showed us where children were able to read the text but not able to retrieve answers from the text despite having it in front of them.

Hipswell C of E Primary

It helped identify those children whose comprehension skills did not match their reading skills.

The Mount School York

Great to observe comprehension behaviours of pupils, looking back at text. Most significantly, it is the timing aspect that is most valuable about DRA.

Communicate-ed review DRA

Attractively presented test, quick and easy to administer, and offering scores for reading speed and comprehension processing speed, which so few tests cover.

Hipswell C of E Primary use DRA

I chose to use DRA because the range of short texts helps to keep the children engaged - they feel as if they are achieving rather than failing – and because having a recognised assessment like DRA is so useful if children need to be referred for specialist support.

The Mount School compare the old and new edition of DRA

DRA is a very complete package. I would always recommend DRA as it is personal, establishes great rapport with the students and leads to good dialogue about preferences for Fiction/ Non-fiction (or lack of understanding of the difference). Error analysis provides a great deal of information in minimal time. It is actually always enjoyable to mark and provides almost instant feedback.