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Sáez, L., Whitney, M., Swanson, D. & Alonzo, J. The alignment between easyCBM mathematics and literacy assessments and state and national standards (2101). (Technical Report No. 2101). Eugene, OR: Behavioral Research and Teaching, University of Oregon.I n this technical report, we present the results of a 2020-2021 study of the alignment between the easyCBM© mathematics and literacy assessments and the content standards adopted in the fifty U.S. states. The study used a three-wave process. First, a team of researchers gathered…
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Community Health and School Readiness: Closing the Gap A team of researchers in the College of Education will use a new grant to look at why some groups of children are at risk for performing more poorly in school. Known risk factors contribute to poor academic achievement; poverty, exposure to environmental toxins, and minority ethnicity or racial status are just a few. By identifying the challenges associated with lower academic achievement before children enter kindergarten, researchers hope to reduce systemic inequities and improve outcomes from education…
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Graduate Employee Josh Kahn Receives Betty Foster McCue Scholarship April 2017 BRT Graduate Employee Josh Kahn was recently awarded a Betty Foster McCue Scholarship by the University of Oregon Graduate School. This award recognizes doctoral candidates in the final year of their doctoral programs whose dissertations focus on topics related to human development and performance. Josh’s dissertation focuses on the development and validation of a measure of Administrative Decision-Making in Student Discipline (ADMin-SD). Previous research has demonstrated that students are…
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BRT faculty and community partners will be teaming with the University of Oregon’s Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership to present a two-day intensive Executive Leadership Institute June 28-29, 2017. The Institute’s theme is “Leading school improvement with evidence-based decisions: Enhancing academic and behavioral performance in classrooms and schools.” BRT faculty presenting at the Institute include Drs. Julie Alonzo, Daniel Anderson, and Shawn Irvin and doctoral student Joshua Kahn. Community partners involved include Drs. Deni Basaraba, from Bethel School…
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BRT Employee Receives Campus-Wide Recognition August 26, 2016 Denise Swanson, BRT’s most senior employee, was one of only five people campus-wide to be awarded a 2016 Classified Star award in recognition of her outstanding service to the University of Oregon. The Classified Star awards are presented by the Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee in partnership with the Office of the President and Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and are intended to recognize classified employees who go “above and beyond”…
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Headliner – Dr. Julie Alonzo August 2016 With a $1.5 million research grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) launching in August of 2016, Dr. Julie Alonzo, Co-Director of BRT, is excited about the future. “The funding for Project DATA for RTI,” she explains, “came at the perfect time, exactly one decade after we received the initial funding that enabled us to develop the easyCBM system. The initial work, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, gave us…
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Goal: Establish a computer-based vertically scaled English language arts (combined reading and writing) and mathematics test with three levels of difficulty – low, mid, and high – that students can take after completing 15 items for placement into these levels. This type of testing provides an adaptive form to ensure students do not take items for which they have a low probability of answering correctly or do not take items that are excessively easy (g., waste time and fatigue students)….
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RFA: Special Education Research and Development Center Program (CFDA# 84.324C) Topic Two: Special Education R & D Center on Assessment and Accountability, Gerald Tindal (UO), Project Director & Co-PI, Ann Schulte (NCSU), Co-PI, Stephen N. Elliott (ASU), Co-PI, Joseph Stevens (UO), Co-PI In this application, we propose a National Research and Development Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education to develop and test various approaches for measuring the achievement growth of students with and without disabilities. We reference these…
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Funding Source: Office of Special Education Programs, Stepping Up Technology Implementation Pur p os e : The field lacks a comprehensive assessment of children’s early risk for reading disabilities (RD) that can be seamlessly used during the critical preschool‐ to‐ kindergarten transition. In addition, fundamentally different approaches to assessment across settings threaten the promise of effective early RD prevention. Consequently, we propose to develp strategies and resources to bridge assessment and data‐based decision‐making practices across preschool and kindergarten to promote…
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Computerized Oral Reading Evaluation (CORE) PI: Joseph F. T. NeseCo-PI: Akihito Kamata (Southern Methodist University) This research project is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A140203 to the University of Oregon. Purpose:  The purpose of this project is to develop and validate a new computerized assessments system of oral reading fluency (ORF), called Computerized Oral Reading Evaluation (CORE). CORE will contain an automated scoring algorithm based on a speech recognition engine and a…
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