RAPS 360
Program Overview
Automatically Diagnoses Each Student’s Reading Skills in Minutes
MindPlay’s RAPS360 is a 100% computerized diagnostic reading assessment program that automatically tests and diagnoses basic reading skills and weaknesses for a single student, a classroom, or the entire school population, and provides teachers and administrators with intervention effectiveness reporting!
In just 5 to 30 minutes, RAPS pinpoints deficiencies in each student’s reading skills creating an electronic individualized learning plan. Student progress can be automatically monitored.
MindPlay’s RAPS360™ is a unique teacher tool to specifically identify why a student is struggling. It:
- Meets Response to Intervention (RTI) program requirements
- Reports the effectiveness of any given intervention
- Provides a digital diagnostician for every student
- Empowers teachers to create individual learning plans for every student
- Allows teachers to customize features
- Develops student prescriptions for improvement
- Generates automatic reports for individuals, classes, schools and districts
- Groups students with similar needs
- Monitors and reports Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
- Tests students quickly and requires minimal teacher time.
Who should use RAPS 360?
- Schools that want to target instruction to improve test scores
- Educators who want to automatically develop an individualized learning plan
- Schools that want to measure progress against plan to achieve student success
- Schools that want to group students for appropriate tier 1, 2, or 3 interventions
RAPS 360 – a more comprehensive testing solution that:
- Identifies the causes effecting poor reading comprehension for each student
- Adjusts testing based on student responses
- Includes a series of diagnostic tests for students reading below grade level including vocabulary, eye-tracking as well as encoding
- Establishes a baseline for each skill area and measures student progress
- Includes comprehensive graphic and tabular reporting
Benefits
A Digital Diagnostician for Every Student!
Automatic Testing in Minutes
- Tests are done at the computer
- Tests an entire class in 10-30 minutes
- Tests can be customized by grade level or functional ability
- Reports are easily generated, saving valuable classroom time
- Tests all basic reading skill areas
- Students progress at their own pace through each test
- Provides a baseline from which to monitor individual, class or school performance
- Class progress is monitored and reported
- Provides information about a child’s longitudinal growth and level of proficiency
- Self-paced testing provides a comfortable testing environment for each student
Prescriptions and Intervention Lessons
- Identifies specific instructional needs for individual students or for the entire class
- Targets error patterns to facilitate effective intervention and remediation
- Automatically assigns students to homogeneous groups
- Supplies teachers with Intervention Packets that can be used with students
- Progress tests can be taken throughout the school year to ensure improvement and allow fine-tuning of instruction
- Self-paced testing provides a comfortable testing environment for each student
Features:
Tests and groups students for intervention
- 100% diagnostic testing ensures that the needs of each student can be addressed
- Each test begins with an emulated diagnostician providing clear directions
- Students progress at their own pace through each test
- Class progress is monitored and reported
- Intervention lessons and worksheets support teacher intervention
- Student-level reports provide information on student test results, test history, prescription and progress
Tests and materials include
- Auditory and visual discrimination of sounds in isolation
- Short vowel sounds, long vowels & diphthongs
- Consonants / digraphs and consonant blends
- Word structure
- Application of phonetic rules
- Seven assignment packets
- Over 250 lessons and worksheets
RAPS 360 offers more comprehensive testing, diagnostics and reporting. In addition to the original phonics test, RAPS 360 provides:
- Diagnostic Tests
- Reading comprehension test establishes reading level within 8 sentences
- RAPS Vocabulary test is based on words embedded in the sentences
- RAPS functional eye movement tests for proper eye-tracking
- RAPS phonics test analyzes student entry to determine gaps in understanding of: phonics, short vowel sounds, long vowels & diphthongs, consonants / digraphs, consonant blends, word structure, phonemic rules
- Fluency test determines fluency (reading rate) and full story comprehension
- Enhanced Reporting
Comprehension Screening
Using the Cloze Method, the comprehension screening is the first step (for grades 2 and up) to determine the independent reading level. Notice all choices fit grammatically; only one fits by meaning. This ensures true understanding by the student rather than simply the ability to find a word that grammatically fits the passage.
Word Meaning
(only tested if the student fails the Comprehension Screening)
Fluency
(only tested if the student passes the Comprehension Screening)
Phonemic Awareness
(only tested for Kinder – first graders)
Research
RTI
Click here to view the RTI flyer.
Sample Reports:
Dozens of graphical and tabular reports available. View a couple samples here.
