Tyler Borek

Educators need high-quality literacy assessments to identify how to best support student in learning to read aloud, however gathering assessment data can be challenging. Because computers have struggled to process speech with human accuracy, schools often measure oral reading fluency through time-consuming teacher-administered assessments or multiple-choice tests with questionable construct validity. In previous projects supported through ED/IES SBIR awards and other sources, the team develo...

This project team will develop an oral reading fluency assessment for students in Kindergarten to Grade 5. Today, schools assess students across a range of critical literacy skills to identify instructional needs. Many of these skills are best assessed orally, but computers are still unable to process speech with human accuracy.

In prior research and development, the company developed Literably, a student administered oral reading fluency assessment that automatically generates scores across key domains as students read aloud. The research team will develop a new prototype to assess early grade school students' phonological awareness, their ability to identify and manipulate the sounds of spoken language. The prototype will prompt students to complete a phonological awareness task by reading aloud into a device, and...