Featured Web Project:
Statewide Alternate Assessments
The secure sites are available to state educational personnel engaged in student assessment for whom we have developed training, assessment, and reporting systems.
BRT Labs
Educators may use the materials in this site to investigate new teaching and learning systems being developed in BRT.The materials are relevant for teachers in grades K-8 and in particular for students in grade levels used in most state accountability systems (3-8).
Teacher easyCBM
http://www.easycbm.com/
The assessment principles behind the easyCBM system are the result of over 30 years of published, peer-reviewed educational research on formative evaluation and use with response to interventions.
Diagnostic Reading Progress Monitoring
http://www.diagnosticcbm.com/
A progress monitoring site for teachers to measure progress in learning to read with 10 forms available in four different types of measures: (a) silent passage reading fluency, (b) silent sentence reading fluency, (c) maze passage vocabulary meaning, and (d) maze sentence vocabulary meaning.
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Dynamic Measures
http://dynmeasures.brtprojects.org/
Math
A site for teachers to develop worksheets and diagnostic assessments in all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in grades K-6. Problem type and difficulty can be manipulated to reflect important operation skills (e.g. borrowing, carrying, etc.).
Reading
A site for teachers to develop elementary or secondary word lists that have similar semantics or morphology. Word lists can be used for word attack skills or testing for generalization. Student work can be included as PDFs in student portfolios.
A site for teachers to develop worksheets and diagnostic assessments in all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in grades K-6. Problem type and difficulty can be manipulated to reflect important operation skills (e.g. borrowing, carrying, etc.).
Reading
A site for teachers to develop elementary or secondary word lists that have similar semantics or morphology. Word lists can be used for word attack skills or testing for generalization. Student work can be included as PDFs in student portfolios.
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Teacher Made Measures of Reading
http://teachermademeasures.brtprojects.org
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 professional materials for use in assessments and inclusion in student portfolios.
Distributed Item Review
http://www.brtitemreview.com/
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. Data are delivered to a single file for analysis with any statistical software.
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Assessment Decision Support System (Accommodation Station)
http://testaccomm.com/
Generates reports for team members of an Individual Educational Program (IEP) to collect and use information on students’ needs and skills as well as potential benefits related to using accommodations on statewide tests. Links are provided to a web site for training on accommodation decision-making.
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History Cyberschool
http://www.brtprojects.org/cyberschool/history/
A curriculum for teaching middle school students the history of the U.S. using a concept-based approach. Materials include important information, concept maps, outlines, strategies and assessments for learning the content.
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Mathematics Cyberschool
A curriculum for teaching middle school students problem solving with a concept-based approach. Materials include problems with strategies used to process information and prioritize approaches as well as measures of proficiency.
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Developing Alternate Assessment Technical Adequacy (DAATA)
http://daata.org/
This web site serves as a repository for research materials that have been used to document reliability and validity of alternate assessments. The research addressed on-demand tasks and includes materials and results from reliability and validity studies so personnel from state departments of education could not only have validation information but also be able to collect their own.
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BRT Research Partnerships