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ROAR Development Newsletter
Computer adaptive assessment & new dashboard system
October 2nd, 2023
Curious to hear more about the ROAR? Visit this page to see the latest media and research on the ROAR and its’ development. Click on the cards below to read the full articles!
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ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing
Ma, W.A., Richie-Halford, A., Burkhardt, A., Kanopka, K., Chou, C., Domingue, B., & Yeatman, J. D. ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing. Behavior Research Methods 57, 56 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02578-y
Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR): A platform for developmental cognitive neuroscience research at an unprecedented scale
Tran, J. E., Ma, W. A., Gijbels, L., Townley-Flores, C., Siebert, J., Murray, T., Fuentes-Jimenez, M., Ramamurthy, M., Richie-Halford, A., & Yeatman, J. (2023, September 7). Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR): A platform for developmental cognitive neuroscience research at an unprecedented scale [Poster presentation]. Flux Congress, Santa Rosa, CA, United States.
The Handoff: How to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world impact.
“…the fact ROAR is free makes it particularly powerful for schools with fewer resources than her own. ‘This is revolutionary not only in the sense of the concept but also in breaking the equity gap that exists in education’…”
What Can Schools Do When Older Students Can’t Read?
Education Week featured the ROAR as a solution to problems with supporting reading development. The ROAR supports schools in understanding the extent and shape of the problem.
“Schools need to figure out what students are struggling with exactly, before they start ‘executing on solutions’… “
Rapid Online Assessment of Reading and Phonological Awareness (ROAR-PA)
Gijbels, L., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., & Yeatman, J. D. (2023, February 11). Rapid Online Assessment of Reading and Phonological Awareness (ROAR-PA). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5z2gh
The Future of Learning
“Now, the tool is being used by more than 30 schools and community-based organizations to identify struggling readers and provide them with support more quickly. At the same time, the tool is generating data that is helping researchers better understand the diversity of reading hurdles some children face.“
Automated generation of sentence reading fluency test items
White J., Burkhardt A., Yeatman J.D., Goodman, N. (2022). Automated generation of sentence reading fluency test items. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44(44).
Rapid online assessment of reading ability
Yeatman, J. D., Tang, K. A., Donnelly, P. M., Yablonski, M., Ramamurthy, M., Karipidis, I. I., Caffarra, S., Takada, M. E., Kanopka, K., Ben-Shachar, M., & Domingue, B. W. (2021). Rapid online assessment of reading ability. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 6396.
Rapid screening for reading disabilities with the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR)
Chou, C. (2022, April 25). Rapid screening for reading disabilities with the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) [Poster presentation]. Stanford Pediatrics Retreat, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
New online tool developed by Stanford researchers helps schools spot struggling readers in a fraction of the usual time
“With the ROAR, schools and clinics can assess and monitor kids’ progress at a scale that just wasn’t possible before…”
Progress on Stanford’s Long-Range Vision highlighted at Academic Council meeting
“More and more, I found that as we engage with the world outside, with trying to tackle real-world problems, that it feeds back and changes the way we think about these fundamental questions…”
