What Is The Accelerated Reader?
The Accelerated Reader, or AR (Advantage Learning Systems, 1993), is a
learning information system that enables freestanding computer-assisted
assessment of student comprehension of “real” books. It facilitates
* more frequent and more detailed assessment in less time and with greater
consistency
* formative feedback for the student
* student development of metacognitive awareness
* increased student motivation to read more, longer, and harder books
* formative feedback for the teacher
* class-wide diagnostic information, including alerts regarding students
who are at risk
* teacher promotion and management of effective reading practice
The Accelerated Reader is a curriculum-based assessment tool that provides a
summary and analysis of results to enable teachers to monitor both the
quantity and quality of reading practice engaged in by their students.
Students administer comprehension tests voluntarily themselves, and the system
is intended specifically to have strong formative effects on subsequent learning.
A student who uses the program selects a book from the more than 25,000 titles
on the AR list. Each book is assigned a point value based on the number of
words it contains and its reading difficulty, as derived from a formula based
on the well-known Flesch-Kincaid readability index (Chall & Dale, 1995;
Flesch, 1968, 1974) that considers the number of syllables in words and
sentence complexity.
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