Current Research Projects

• Study 1: easyCBM Beginning Reading Growth - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades: K-5
  2012 - 2013
  Purpose: The National Center on Response to Intervention reviews and evaluates the technical adequacy of educational assessments used to inform instruction. More evidence is currently needed to properly evaluate the technical adequacy of easyCBM beginning reading assessments for measuring skill growth across the academic year. Therefore, we're administering brief, but regular, intervals of test administration (conducted by trained data collectors) during the 2012-2013 school year.
  
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• Study 2: easyCBM Common Core Math & Response to Intervention - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades: 6-8
  2012 – 2013
  Purpose: The easyCBM Common Core math measures (CCSS math) were designed for use within a response to intervention (RTI) framework. The purpose of this study is to examine how the measures relate to specific RTI practices.
  
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• Study 3: easyCBM Reading Criterion-Validity - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades 2-5
  2012 - 2013
  Purpose:
  
  
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• Study 4: easyCBM Common Core Math Reliability - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades 6-8
  2012 – 2013
  Purpose:
  To investigate the reliability of the easyCBM Common Core math measures, Gr. 6-8.
  
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• Study 5: easyCBM Common Core Math Scaling - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades 6-8
  2012 – 2013
  Purpose:
  Screening and progress monitoring assessments depend on alternate forms to be of equivalent difficulty to accurately reflect student growth. If alternate test forms do not present the same degree of difficulty, then changes in student performance over time may be due to features of the measures, as opposed to student learning. The purpose of this study is to calibrate the difficulty and functioning of newly-created middle school math items, aligned with the common core, so that alternate test forms of comparable difficulty and with comparable psychometric properties may be created and used as part of a response to intervention (RTI) system. These new mathematics measures were written by middle school math teachers to align to the Common Core State Standards.
  
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• Study 6: easyCBM Common Core Math Item Writing and Review - Closed (Recruitment Completed)

  Grades K-5
  2012 – 2013
  Purpose:
  In 2010, the national Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematics were released to provide a unified set of expectations for developing mathematics skills for grades K-12. In 2011-2012, Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT) studied the alignment between existing easyCBM® mathematics items and the CCSS. The purpose of this current project is to use the results of our alignment studies to write additional mathematics items addressing the CCSS that are currently underrepresented within the easyCBM® K-5 measures. The results of this research will help strengthen CCSS alignment and enhance the validity of data score interpretations (e.g., instructional decisions made in response to student performance that are increasingly couched within the CCSS).
  
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• Study 7: easyCBM CCSS Math Item Piloting - Open (Actively Recruiting Participants)

  Grades K-5
  2012 - 2013
  Purpose:
  Screening and progress monitoring assessments depend on alternate forms to be of equivalent difficulty to accurately reflect student growth. If alternate test forms do not present the same degree of difficulty, then changes in student performance over time may be due to features of the measures, as opposed to student learning. The purpose of this study is to calibrate the difficulty and functioning of newly-created elementary school math items, aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), so that alternate test forms of comparable difficulty can be created and added to the easyCBM system. These new mathematics measures were written by elementary school math teachers to align to CCSS.
  
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