A Computer-Adaptive Assessment

When students log in to SRI, they are shown a grade-appropriate interest screen where they choose three areas of interest. Next, the student is provided with instructions for taking the test and is then given a short practice test to become familiar with the item format.

A computer-adaptive algorithm works behind the scenes to continually adjust the difficulty of the items based on student responses, enabling SRI to produce highly-accurate measures of text comprehension.

In approximately 20 minutes, SRI produces an accurate measure of a student’s reading ability and provides a Lexile score for the student to see.

Students receive instant feedback on their reading performance and a reading list that is customized to their chosen areas of interest and their reading ability. The student can then find books that are both interesting and appropriately challenging.

In subsequent assessments, SRI targets a student’s current reading level and begins the test at that level so that each test is a precise measure of individual student performance.