Analytic Force

In a prior SBIR project (EDIES17C0030), the small business developed Moby.Read, a tablet-based speech recognition app that grade school students use to self-administer oral-reading fluency assessments.

The team fully developed and tested Moby.Read, a tablet-based oral reading fluency assessment. Reading out loud is a foundational skill for students in grades 1 to 5 and is included in state learning standards. In early grades, oral reading fluency assessments are often used to place students, monitor progress, and guide teaching. However, traditional oral reading fluency assessment is time-intensive for teachers, and the assessments typically include several sources of uncontrolled variance...

Through a 2014 contract from the NAEP program at the National Center for Education Statistics and during Phase I (completed in 2016), the team developed a prototype of Moby.Read, a tablet-based app where grade school students read a passage aloud and the speech-recognition software generates an assessment of oral-reading fluency in real-time.

In this project, researchers developed and studied a prototype of a software dashboard to help educators leverage their data and experience to develop actionable plans for students kindergarten to 12th-grade.