Assessing the Validity of the Standardized Assessment of Reading Skills in Russian and Verifying the Relevance of Available Normative Data
Standardized tests with normative data have become the gold standard for assessing reading skills and for diagnosing a specific reading disorder (developmental dyslexia) in many languages. For Russian, there is one such reading assessment test called the Standardized Assessment of Reading Skills, developed by A.N. Kornev and first published in 1997. However, the most recent available normative data on this methodology were collected more than a decade ago, and researches did not control for several important variables. Furthermore, no details have been published about the diagnostic validity of this test. We used the test to assess reading skills in 90 typically developing Russian primary school children in 2018. In this article, we present the results of testing typically developing children, including updated values of reading fluency and, for the first time, metrics of reading comprehension and weighted error scores. Additionally, we tested 50 children with clinically diagnosed developmental dyslexia and provide information about the sensitivity and specificity of the Standardized Assessment of Reading Skills.