Florida Center for Reading Research:

Mission & Projects

Dr. Marcia L. Grek

Council of Language Arts Supervisors, May 2003

Mission: Participate in the Leadership Triangle

To serve as part of Florida’s Leadership Triangle for the Just Read, Florida! initiative and to provide technical assistance and support to all districts and schools receiving a Reading First grant.

Mission: Conduct Research

To conduct basic and applied research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that

• will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading

• will have an immediate impact on policy and practices related to literacy instruction and assessment in Florida

Mission: Disseminate Information

To disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in pre-school through 12th grade

-Website

-Published Research Studies

FCRR Project: Professional Development

Work in partnership with the Leadership Triangle to develop high quality professional development modules for literacy instruction for Reading First teachers, administrators and support staff

FCRR Project: Student Assessment

State-wide training for personnel from Reading First schools in the administration and interpretation of reliable and valid measures of reading progress for grades K-3

-DIBELS

-Diagnostics

-Outcome Measures

Florida has developed a web-based Progress Florida has developed a web-based Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN) Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN) to:to:

•Organize and store all K-3 data Organize and store all K-3 data

•Make reports Make reports easilyeasily and and quicklyquickly available available

•Track student progress within and acrossTrack student progress within and across yearsyears

FCRR Project:Web-based System

FCRR Project: PMRN

Reporting as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4

1. Assess: Assessment Teams monitor student progress 4 times per year.

2. Enter Data: Designated data enter personnel enter the scores into the user friendly website.

3. Compute: The PMRN quickly aggregates the data

4. Access: Teacher can immediately access their class reports from any computer with internet access.

https://pmrn.fcrr.org

Low Risk“Good to Go”

Moderate RiskCaution

High RiskDANGER!

Colors provide a quick indication of the student’s progress and the risk that they have of not achieving the expected level of proficiency.

Florida Reading First Assessment - Risk

Status

Apple, AdamBass, Stripped

Chamberlain, WiltDoe, Jane

Delta, RiverFamily- Robinson, Swiss

Howard, RonKingdom, LostLoafer, Penny

Patti,, PeppermintSmith, JohnWalton, Erin

IntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensiveIntensive

9 (D)5 (D)3 (D)5 (D)3 (D)2 (D)27 (E)4 (D)28 (E)3 (D)

40 (Es)39 (Es)

15 (AR)14 (AR)16 (AR)13 (AR)17 (AR)18 (AR)20 (AR)11 (AR)25 (SR)26 (SR)16 (AR)35 (SR)

PSF NWFClass ListInstructional

Level

Class Status ReportGhost County Schools, Casper Elementary

Grade 1, SmithAssessment Period 2, 2002-2003

IntervalTarget

Benchmark36 38 14

5 (AR)2 (AR)4 (AR)3 (AR)4 (AR)2 (AR)1 (AR)12 (SR)3 (AR)0 (AR)5 (AR)5 (AR)5 (AR)

ORF

36 (SR)28 (E)IntensiveWalton, JohnBrown, LucasClancy, Tom

Friday, JoeTannenbaum, Oh

Tree, ChrisTumble, Major

Wagner, Lindsey

Ford, HenryGreer, Rosie

Mammoth, Joe

Wood, Ceder

Strategic

Benchmark

7 (D)

8 (D)8 (D)

40 (Es)

17 (AR)StrategicStrategicStrategicStrategicStrategic

BenchmarkBenchmark

BenchmarkBenchmark

8 (D)32 (E)34 (E)45 (Es)35 (E)39 (Es)

27 (E)30 (SR)

36 (SR)32 (SR)18 (AR)27 (SR)40 (LR)30 (SR)39 (LR)50 (LR)36 (SR)

17 (LR)21 (LR)

14 (LR)

19 (LR)15 (LR)

12 (SR)13 (SR)

14 (LR)20 (LR)

8 (SR)12 (SR)

NextTarget 51 21

Class Grade LevelPMT Summary

Print All Parent Reports

ProgressTracking

Tool

ClassPMT

ClassPMT

ClassPMT

ProgressTracking

Tool

ProgressTracking

Tool

The Class Status Report is the first report that a teacher sees.

It provides a “snapshot” of the class’ progress, a quick indication of each child’s success, and navigation links to all of the other reports.

The Class Status Report helps answer the question of who is at risk.

Florida Reading First Assessment

-Class Status Report

Project: FCRR Reports

• Purpose:– To be a reliable resource for school districts

as they make decisions about instructional materials

– To report the alignment of instructional materials to Reading First guidelines and the degree to which they are consistent with current scientifically based reading research

Process for FCRR Reports

• A comprehensive review of teacher and student materials is conducted.

• A thorough literature review is conducted and all available research is gathered. This research is analyzed and succinctly summarized.

• More information is gathered through– observations of the program in classrooms.– conference calls with principals and

teachers who use the program.– meetings with the author/publisher.– the program’s website.

Content of FCRR Reports

• Description• Alignment with Reading First• Review of Research• Strengths and Weaknesses• Contact information of Florida counties

that implement the program• Link to the program’s website• References

FCRR Project: Assessment Development

•Development of reliable and valid early literacy assessment methods for preschool children ages 3-5

•Development of efficient, reliable and valid, computer-adaptive and group-administered early reading progress monitoring assessments for children in grades K-3

•Development of a computer adaptive diagnostic assessment for 4-12 students

FCRR Project: FCAT Research

•Conduct research on the FCAT reading assessment that will help guide instruction and improve student performance

www.fcrr.org