Further progress towards a standardised curriculum-based measure of reading: calibrating a new passage reading test against the New South Wales basic skills test

Results are presented from a pilot study and a larger scale study aligning a curriculum-based passage reading test, the Wheldall Assessment of Reading Passages (WARP), with the literacy components of the New South Wales Basic Skills Test (BST). A strong relationship between the WARP and BST Literacy is demonstrated, particularly for Year 3 students. Representative (approximate) norms for students in Years One to 5 on the WARP are reported, based on the results from a school with a BST literacy profile that is very similar to that for the state of New South Wales as a whole.