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Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System is Often Wrong with Dr. Matt Burns

“Flipping a coin would actually be better.”
“And when it came to identifying the readers who were furthest behind, Burns said, the BAS performed even worse.”
 Matt Burns is a special education professor who conducted the first peer-reviewed study of the BAS.
Article: “Benchmark Assessment System Reading Test is Widely Used and Often Wrong” APM Reports
December 11, 2023 by Christopher Peak
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2023/12/11/benchmark-assessment-system-reading-test- often-wrong
Matt Burns Bio:
https://education.ufl.edu/faculty/matthew-burns/

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