The Feifer Assessment of Reading™ (FAR™) is a comprehensive assessment of reading and related processes. It is unique in that it helps you determine the examinee's specific subtype of dyslexia to inform decisions about appropriate interventions. Designed to examine the underlying cognitive and linguistic processes that support reading proficiency, this comprehensive evaluation is suitable for individuals from Pre-K to College.
Purpose: Examines the underlying cognitive and linguistic processes that support proficient reading skills
Format: Paper and pencil
Grade Range: Pre-K to College
Time: 35 minutes for PK; 60 minutes for K–Grade 1; 75 minutes for Grade 2+; 15–20 minutes for Screening Form
Features and Benefits:
Neurodevelopmental Approach: Recognizing that treatments for reading disorders vary by dyslexia subtype (dysphonetic dyslexia, surface dyslexia, mixed dyslexia, and reading comprehension deficits), the FAR™ assesses various neural pathways involved in reading processes such as phonemic awareness, fluency, decoding, and comprehension.
Comprehensive Assessment: With 15 individual subtests measuring various aspects of vocabulary, phonological awareness, decoding skills, rapid automatic naming, orthographical processing, morphological processing, word memory, reading fluency (word and story; silent and oral), and comprehension skills, the FAR™ provides a holistic evaluation of reading-related behaviors.
Multiple Applications: The FAR™ can be used for an array of purposes, including general screening of dyslexia, progress monitoring of discrete skills for school systems operating in an RTI paradigm, diagnosis of a learning disability as part of a comprehensive psychological evaluation, and design of a deficit- or skill-specific intervention.
Screening Form: The FAR™ also offers a separate screening form to identify children at risk for developmental dyslexia and measure underlying reading processes. Screening Form is composed of three subtests: one from the Phonological Index (Phonemic Awareness); one from the Fluency Index (Rapid Automatic Naming); and one from the Comprehension Index (Semantic Concepts).
Administration & Scoring:
Administered with paper and pencil, the FAR™ provides flexibility in administration time and options to administer the full battery or specific subtests.
Examinees in prekindergarten take eight subtests, examinees in kindergarten to Grade 1 take 11 subtests, and examinees in Grade 2 to college take 14 subtests.
Five index scores are generated: the Phonological Index, the Fluency Index, the Comprehension Index, the Mixed Index (a composite of Phonological and Fluency index scores), and the FAR Total Index (a composite of all subtest scores).
Reliable change and discrepancy scores can be calculated.
Reliability, Validity, & Norms:
Standardized on a sample of 1,074 examinees in prekindergarten to college drawn from more than 30 states using a population-proportionate, stratified random sampling plan based on 2012 U.S. Census statistics.
Offers grade-based norms (with age proxies provided); age and grade equivalents for subtest scores; and confidence intervals, percentile ranks, z scores, and normal curve equivalents (NCEs) for index scores.
Subtest and index scores are scaled to the familiar IQ metric, wherein the mean is set to 100 and the standard deviation to 15.
The FAR subtests have median reliability coefficients that range from .67 to .95, the majority of which are in the upper .80s and .90s, indicating an overall high degree of internal consistency.
The FAR demonstrates consistent relationships in the expected direction and magnitude with a variety of external variables including grade; other reading tests; and measures of achievement, memory, and intelligence.
Includes clinical samples of more than 120 students with learning problems, ADHD, and intellectual developmental disorder.
Predictive validity analysis of learning disability demonstrated a significant discriminant function, with an overall classification rate of 96.7%.
What's In The Box
FAR Comprehensive Kit: includes FAR Professional Manual with Fast Guide, 10 Examiner Record Forms, 10 Examinee Response Forms, Stimulus Book 1, Stimulus Book 2, Stimulus Book 3, set of 3 Scoring Templates, and Laminated Storybook
