Miscue Analysis

Miscue analysis was originally developed by Ken Goodman to understand the reading process, and functions as a diagnostic tool that helps researchers and teachers gain insight into how a reader is actually reading. A miscue is an observed response during reading that differs from the expected response; Goodman used this neutral term rather than a word like error or mistake in order to avoid value judgments, treating such departures from the text as informative windows on the reading process rather than simple failures.