Gray Oral Reading Test, Fifth Edition

(GORT- 5)

Type: Norm-referenced Authors: J. Lee

Wiederholt and
Brian R. Bryant

Publisher:
Pro Ed.

Purpose: The purposes of the Year: 2012

GORT-5 are to identify
students with oral reading
difficulties, determine
strengths and
weaknesses, evaluate
student progress, and
provide a standardized
norm-referenced test that
is appropriate for
conducting reading
research with school-age
children (Wiederholt &
Bryant, 2012a).

Cost: $311.00

Sensitivity: .82

Specificity: 86

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 Normative Population (if
applicable): New normative data
were collected in 2008-2010, and
norms have been extended upward
to age 23 years, 11 months.

Age Range:
6:0-23:11

Testing time: 20-30

Minutes

Composite Scores: Rate, Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension are reported as

raw scores, grade and age equivalents, percentile ranks, and
scaled scores having a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of
3. The Oral Reading Index is reported as a standard score
based on a distribution having a mean of 100 and a standard
deviation of 15. Percentile ranks are also provided.

● Rate. The Rate Score is derived from the amount of time in

seconds taken by a student to read a story aloud.
● Accuracy. The Accuracy Score is derived from the number of
words the student pronounces correctly when reading the
passage.
● Fluency. The Fluency Score is a combination of the student's
Rate and Accuracy Scores.
● Comprehension. The Comprehension Score is the number of
questions about the stories that the student answers correctly.
The open-ended format ensures that the items are passage
dependent.
● Oral Reading Index. The Oral Reading Index is a composite
score formed by combining students' Fluency and
Comprehension scaled scores.

Subtests:
● Form A and B,
each
 containing 16
developmentall
y sequenced
reading
passage with 5
comprehensio
n questions

Interpretable Yes No N/A

subtests:

Multiple forms: Yes No

Forms A and B

Pros:
● Easy to administer
● Duration of Test: 20-30 minutes
● Wide Age Range
● Determining strengths and
weaknesses. The GORT-5 can be
used to compare intra-individual
reading skills (e.g., reading rate vs.
comprehension) and to help tailor
interventions to the student's
specific needs.
● Monitoring progress
● High levels reliability
● Demographics based on the
Nation's population. However, this
was in 2012 and demographics have
changed over the last 10 years.
Cons:
● Is reading rate that
important?
○ May not be
appropriate for
students who stutter
● Goals and objectives are
not clearly identified based
on the Oral Reading index
score; only gives a picture
of client’s oral reading
skills
● Difficult to score
● May not be an appropriate
assessment for bilingual
speakers
● Gives a small picture of
child’s overall reading
ability