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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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Can a New Reading Assessment Tool Help Improve Literacy Rates?
“ROAR is going to partner with an expert in Black American English to undertake a rigorous and innovative item analysis to reduce the tests' bias. Too often, standardized literacy assessments unreasonably penalize dialect speakers and underestimate their language and reading skills. This will be a game changer, showing the wider reading assessment field that linguistic bias reduction can and should be done.”
Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR): Evaluation of an online tool for screening reading skills in a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic
Barrington, E., Sarkisian, S. M., Feldman, H. M., & Yeatman, J.D. Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR): Evaluation of an online tool for screening reading skills in a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 44(9). https://doi.org/10.1097/dbp.0000000000001226.
Development and validation of a rapid online sentence reading efficiency assessment
Yeatman, J. D., Tran, J. E., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., Mitchell, J., Yablonski, M., Gijbels, L., Townley-Flores, C., & Richie-Halford, A. [Pre-print]. Development and validation of a silent sentence reading efficiency online assessment.
Generative AI work for Sentence Reading Efficiency work presented at the AI+Education Summit
Zelikman, E., Ma, W. A., Tran, J. E., Yang. D., Yeatman, J. D., & Haber, N. (2023). Generating and Evaluating Tests for K-12 Students with Language Model Simulations: A Case Study on Sentence Reading Efficiency [Poster presentation]. 2024 AI+Education Summit: AI in the Service of Teaching & Learning.
Keynote for the California Dyslexia Initiative Professional Learning Network
Professor Yeatman presented data showing how intensive, evidence-based reading intervention programs can reshape the development of the brain's reading circuitry. In addition, he discusses the implications of these findings for dyslexia screening and intervention. The ROAR project is presented @ 47:00.
Generating and Evaluating Tests for K-12 Students with Language Model Simulations: A Case Study on Sentence Reading Efficiency
Zelikman, E., Ma, W. A., Tran, J. E., Yang. D., Yeatman, J. D., & Haber, N. (2023). Generating and Evaluating Tests for K-12 Students with Language Model Simulations: A Case Study on Sentence Reading Efficiency [Conference proceeding]. 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.06837
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. (2023, September 22). ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7tpx2
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'... "
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."
