BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH & TEACHING
Research and Development in Student Learning and Academic Assessment
Teacher Made Measures of Reading – A technology interface for teachers to develop their own measures of passage reading fluency, sentence reading fluency, or maze vocabulary. Teachers have complete control of the content and can create computer based tests and reporting for use in assessments and inclusion in student portfolios. TchrMadeMsrsPresentation.pdf
ZipTrain – is an online training and proficiency administration system designed to put complete control of content and course design in the hands of the course creation team. Professional and secure deployment is assured because the ZipTrain software automatically and transparently provides the technology backbone and support. The basic ZipTrain unit is an instance; each ZipTrain instance supports a unique user database, a set of user configurable public facing web pages (for example about this site…
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PCRC – (February 2012, Coronado, CA). The Pacific Coast Research Conference is for researchers concerned about teaching, learning, and schooling for students with mild to moderate disabilities. PCRC is a unique research meeting, characterized by intensity and informality. The meeting runs from Thursday evening until Saturday night; sessions are two hours in length. PCRC is distinguished by the high quality of research presented, an informality that promotes effective and vigorous participation and interaction, and an opportunity to discuss controversial topics…
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Middle School Math (Mid Math) – Originally measures were developed for the 2% population (i.e., students performing well below grade-level expectations) and aligned to the NCTM Focal Point Standard. New Middle School Math items (2,700) have been developed for 6th-8th grade students (performing at or slightly below grade-level expectations) and aligned to the Common Core State Standards. MidMthPresentation
Dynamically Generated Measures of Math – A site for teachers to develop worksheets and diagnostic assessments in all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in grades K-5. Problem type and difficulty can be manipulated to reflect important operation skills (e.g. borrowing, carrying, etc.). DynamicMeasuresHandout.pdf
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Alignment to easyCBM© Math In the summer of 2012, experienced teachers from a school district in Texas were recruited to participate in a formal study of the alignment between the TEKS and easyCBM. The results of the alignment study in the content area of math are presented here, with overall alignment presented first, then more detailed results, by grade. GrK-8TEKS_MathReport_Wray_ETAL
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Alignment to easyCBM© Reading. In the summer of 2012, experienced teachers from a school district in Texas were recruited to participate in a formal study of the alignment between the TEKS and easyCBM. The results of the alignment study in the content area of reading are presented here, with overall alignment presented first, then more detailed results, by grade. GrK-8TEKS_RdgReport_Irvin_ETAL
Distributed Item Review (DIR) – A web-based system for presenting test items to experts across a broad geographic region so they can review them for important dimensions of bias, sensitivity, and alignment with standards DIR_Riverside
Directed Reading Assessments (DRA) – Reading assessments that expand the existing reading measures on easyCBM, Gr. 3 – 8, to include non-fiction (Read to Perform a Task, Informational Text) and shorter fiction (Short Literary Text) passages. DirectedRdgAssmnt
Diagnostic Reading Progress Monitoring (DPRM) – DRPM is a computer-based reading assessment that offers 20 alternate forms each of two silent reading fluency and two vocabulary measures. The measures are to be used as part of a response to intervention (RTI) system and provide diagnostic information to supplement other measures. The DRPM reading measures are computer-based so teachers can efficiently collect data. Reports highlight essential differences in the decoding aspects of performance (the silent reading …
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