Week 10- DIBELS vs QRI-5

I believe DIBELS and the Qualitative Reading Inventory 5 are both two extremely useful assessment tools but they differ in many ways. The QRI-5 allows the student to build up their confidence by starting two levels below the students grade level which I believe is a great way to start.In DIBELS you are focusing on many different areas of reading, which include fluency,initial sound recognition, and etc. While using the QRI-5 I found it easier to score the student because the information was their for me to reference back too. I was able to go back to the story the student read and determine the miscues. Although I was able to go back and reference back to the scoring sheet, I still had to come up with a lesson that would enhance the students reading level and comprehension. While using DIBELS I was more or less confused about how to properly grade the student. I do believe that DIBELS is a great assessment tool because it gives the cooperating teacher an analysis of the assessment, within the analysis DIBELS formulates different activities to better assist the student. I believe that is the greatest part of using DIBELS because it comes up with a specific lesson to meet the need of the specific student. Overall I believe using DIBELS and QRI-5 is a great way to monitor the students reading progress when used accurately,but if I had to choice one assessment to use I would use the QRI-5.