Children's Progress, Inc.

Prior research has shown that students who are considered to be gifted generally have high levels of academic performance, motivation, creativity, critical thinking skills, and positive self-concepts. Perhaps because the general perception is that gifted students will flourish under any conditions, support for gifted children may be limited within some schools. The purpose of this project is to develop an early intervention software program to assess and provide support to gifted children in...

This project team developed a prototype of the software component of the Computer Adaptive Triarchic Assessment and Instructional Activities for Early Childhood. The software component will be used with Children's Progress core product to identify gifted prekindergarten to 2nd grade students. The software uses computer adaptive methods to determine young children's analytic, practical, and creative abilities.

Many assessments for the early grades do not provide insight about the children's deficits in literacy and mathematics and do not provide information regarding what steps can be taken to correct these deficits. This project team developed and validated a dynamic web-delivered technology for assessment and instruction that can be independently completed by a child on the computer in the classroom and also at home. Further, the system provides teacher and parent reports and web-report videos d...

In this project, researchers iteratively developed a prototype of a "response error analysis" software component to work with the Children's Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA), a dynamic computer assessment that measured language arts and math abilities in pre-kindergarten to second-grade students.