eDRP

Measuring Reading Power with the DRP: What your students can do!

The Degrees of Reading Power (DRP^®) Program: you know it, you use it, and you know why you use it. The DRP is one of the few truly criterion-referenced reading assessments that:

• lets you know where your students stand relative to the materials you're using in your classroom,
• is perfect for identifying readers in your classroom who are reading below grade level (your struggling readers), and
• is, at the same time, easy to administer and score.
  

With so many features in its favor, you might ask if there's any way we could make the DRP a more effective tool for you. We think there is, and that's why we've developed the eDRP, the electronically delivered version of Degrees of Reading Power assessments.

We've made easy even easier.

Administering and even hand scoring the DRP has always been relatively easy. But, eDRP makes it even easier. No more

• Hand scoring of student tests
• Waiting for results
• Taking time to distribute materials, fill in answer sheets,
      and collecting and securing assessment materials

And, in case you were wondering how it might be different as a test, be assured that the eDRP is just like the DRP. It's the same highly respected assessment that provides the same results with the same instructional usefulness; but with eDRP the results are virtually immediate: for the student, for the teacher, for the school, and for the district.

Using a Web-based technology developed in partnership with Measurement, Inc., Questar now enables you to give DRP tests via computer.

Apart from the fact that students "bubble in" their answers right on the screen with a mouse click, we've designed the test to look almost identical to the way it looks when students take it with paper and pencil.

Test passages appear one at a time on the screen, and item choices are carefully aligned with the text just as they are in the paper version.

Students can easily move from passage to passage by clicking on a small tab at the bottom of each passage, and they can freely move forward and backward in the test just as they can with a regular test booklet.

At the completion of the testing session, students are asked if they want to review their answers, and the computer indicates, for each passage, how many of the questions they have answered.

After the test is finished, the results can be displayed immediately for the student as an individual student report, so the student can see how well he or she has done (or stored for your review—it's your decision).

When multiple students are tested in a session, or students from the same teacher are tested over multiple sessions, all of the results can be quickly aggregated into a class, grade, school, and even a district-level report.

How you can get started

To start using the eDRP, all your school, or school district, needs to do is sign up for a testing session through Questar, and you're on your way. Call Questar Customer Service at (800) 800-2598 for more information on obtaining the eDRP.

Tests are thoroughly secure, and only appropriately designated school personnel can administer (proctor) the tests and see the results (we'll provide them with a secure password). The tests themselves are fully encrypted, and are never stored longer than the testing session on any school computer.

So whether you're interested in testing a single student, a class of students, or all of the classes in a grade, the eDRP can give you the essential assessment information you need. It's just a few mouse clicks away.

Ordering

For complete pricing and ordering information, contact a Customer Service Representative at 1-800-800-2598.