Current Research Projects

• 1. Diagnostic Reading Progress Monitoring (DRPM) Scaling
  Grades 3-5
  Fall 2011
  Students take a series of online reading tests, designed to capture reading fluency information in a computer-delivered test.
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• 2. RTI Progress Monitoring Case Study
  September 2011 – June 2012
  Teachers administer progress monitoring assessments in reading and mathematics following district protocol throughout the school year, giving detailed information about the interventions they provide students through plotting intervention information on easyCBM and by completing bi-monthly teaching logs related to their lessons. Twice during the year, teachers will participate in an interview or focus group about the ways in which they are using the screening / progress monitoring data to guide their instructional decision-making with their classes as a whole as well as with individual students. $1400 honorarium: $600 paid in December, $800 paid in June.
  
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• 3. Reading Measures Structure Analysis
  Grades 3-8
  November 2011
  Students take 3 alternate forms each of Read to Perform a Task, Informational Text, and Short Literary Text measures. Group administered. Total time: 45 minutes per class for test administration, plus approximately one additional hour for teacher data-entry. $50 gift card per teacher.
  
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• 4. Spanish Reading Tests Review and Pilot
  Grades K-2
  November 2011
  Students take 3 alternate forms each of two (Gr. K, 2) or four (Gr. 1) different one-minute timed Spanish language assessments. Individually administered by school staff. Total time: 6 minutes per student (Gr. K, 2); 12 minutes per student (Gr. 1). $25 gift card per teacher (Gr. K, 2), $50 gift card per teacher (Gr. 1).
  
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• 5. easyCBM Reading Construct Validity
  Grades 2-5
  November 2011
  Students take 3 alternate forms each of 1-5 different individually administered reading measures (grades K-5), one vocabulary measure, and one multiple choice reading comprehension test (Grades 2-5). Total Time: 5-10 minutes per student for individually administered tests, 30 minutes for group-administered comprehension test per class, plus approximately 1 hour teacher data entry time. $50 gift card per teacher.
  
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• 6. Middle School Math Item Scaling
  Grades 6-8
  Dec. 5, 2011 - Feb. 15, 2012
  Students complete 50 online math questions. Group administered in a computer lab. Total time: 45 minutes. District participants will be compensated at a rate of $1 per student participating in this study.
  
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• 7a. easyCBM Beginning Reading Measures Alignment: Teachers
  Grades K-3
  November - December 2011
  Grade-level / content-area teachers will provide feedback on the alignment between the easyCBM reading assessments and the Common Core standards in literacy development. Total time: 60 minutes. $25 gift card per teacher. Note: this study does not involve students. For purposes of calculating research participation, each teacher participant will count as 20 students.
  
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• 7b. easyCBM Reading Comprehension Measures Alignment: Teachers
  Grades 2-5
  March – April 2012
  Grade-level / content-area teachers will provide feedback on the alignment between the easyCBM reading comprehension assessments and the Common Core standards in literacy development. Total time: 4 hours. $25 gift card per teacher for each hour of alignment rating. Note: this study does not involve students. For purposes of calculating research participation, each teacher participant will count as 20 students.
  
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• 7c. easyCBM Letter Sounds & Word Reading Measures Alignment Study
  Grades 1-3
  February 2012
  Students complete a series of individually-administered early reading measures (phoneme segmenting, letter sounds, word reading fluency). Total time: 6 minutes per student. $25 gift card per teacher.
  
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• 8. Middle School Math Measures Alignment
  Grades 6-8
  April 2012
  Grade-level / content-area teachers will provide feedback on the alignment between the easyCBM mathematics assessments and the Common Core standards in mathematics. Total time: 12 hours, including mandatory 1 hour webinar orientation. $300 per teacher. Note: this study does not involve students. For purposes of calculating research participation, each teacher participant will count as 20 students.
  
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• 9. easyCBM Math Measures Alignment
  Grades K-8
  March 2012
  Grade-level / content-area teachers will provide feedback on the alignment between the easyCBM mathematics assessments and the Common Core standards in mathematics. Total time: 4 hours. $100 gift card per teacher. Note: this study does not involve students. For purposes of calculating district research participation, each teacher participant will count as 20 students.
  
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