Normalization of Reading Fluency in pupils of Ilam City

Reading fluency is the main factor in school success. Students will gradually learn to read fluency. When students easily recognize letters and words with the eye and combine them; they have ability to reading fluency. The aim at this study was to demonstrate reliability and validity of reading fluency. This research was a descriptive study to evaluate the psychometric properties of a reading fluency test among pupils in Ilam city. The study population includes all pupils in Ilam city for the academic years 2013 to 2014. The sample size included 798 pupils selected by cluster random sampling. The results of this study illustrate that items of point-biserial correlation were completely positive, except for items 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and between -0.98 and .99 oscillated. Also, the difficulty indexes between –1.19 and 3.93 oscillated. The average diagnostic power questions are 1.03 with standard deviation 0.01 and average to load factor questions is 0.71 with a standard deviation of 0.01, and RMS equal to 0.21 was calculated. The reliability of this test was 0.87.