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 Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN) to: Organize and store all K-3 dataOrganize and store all K-3 data Make reports easily and quickly availableMake reports easily and quickly available Track student progress within and acrossTrack student progress within and across years years 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.

Low Risk “Good to Go” Moderate Risk Caution High Risk DANGER! 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

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