Welcome to the ROAR professional learning playlist. This playlist contains a number of videos meant to support your understanding of ROAR so that you feel comfortable and confident on administration day.
All ROAR assessments are rooted in rigorous, cutting edge research. This video unpacks ROAR's relationship to the Science of Reading by
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Diving into the Scarborough Rope model of reading development
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Highlighting the utility of assessing foundational skills in isolation
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Demonstrating the real impact reading intervention can have on struggling readers' brains!
Part of ROAR's research-practice-partnership mission is creating an assessment experience that is rapid, accessible, and straightforward for educators and students alike. In this video you will:
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Explore the educator and student dashboards, including how to login
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Preview key materials for administration day
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Explore some FAQs and how to request support from the ROAR team
The ROAR score report provides a number of different scores to support educators in connecting their students with the resources they need to grow as readers. In this video, you will:
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Unpack an overview of the score report and its features
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Review support categories, standard scores, and percentiles for both elementary and secondary students
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Analyze the resources available for making instructional decisions based on assessment data, such as the Next Steps Guide