UC Berkeley BEAR Center-bearcenter.berkeley.edu

About BEAR

The Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research(BEAR)Center designs and delivers educational assessment instruments, performs research in assessment and psychometrics, and trains graduate students in these areas.

We collaborate with researchers in universities across the United States and abroad to develop software and other resources for constructing, managing, administering, and analyzing assessments.

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Featured Projects

The core of our research is development and use of appropriate assessment methods for evaluating students, schools, educational policy, and the reform of educational evaluation away from the use of inappropriate standardized tests.

These are some examples of the projects that we are actively developing:

California Department of Educations Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP)

DRDP(2015) suite of assessments are now available for early implementation!The DRDP(2015) assessments are authentic observational assessment tools used throughout California to support the development for children from early infancy through kindergarten. For over 15 years, BEAR Center researchers collaboratively refined the tool to ensure that it is a valid and reliable measurement of development in early childhood. BEAR Center is responsible for the DRDPtech technology system.

Project Aspire - Defining and Assessing Mathematical Knowledge For Teaching Secondary Mathematics

The BEAR Center is collaborating with a team of mathematics education content experts at Arizona State University led by Pat Thompson on this NSF-funded project. The goal of Project Aspire is to develop an instrument that assesses secondary mathematics teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching secondary mathematics.

Assessing Data Modeling and Statistical Reasoning (ADM)

The ADM project aims to develop an assessment system to evaluate elementary and middle school students’ skills and understanding related to data modeling and statistical reasoning.

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Our Software

In addition to our research in psychometrics, the BEAR Center is dedicated to the development of software that can facilitate the delivery and analysis of assessments, providing teachers with innovative and useful ways to assess students.

Berkeley Assessment System Software (BASS)

DRDP Technologies

ConstructMap

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Recent Publications

The latest volume of Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives (Volume 12, Issue 4, 2014) is now available

This issue is explores the methodological disagreement concerning causal indicators, discussing wether they are inherently sensitive to interpretational confounding or not.

Selected presentations by BEAR Center researchers:

Using Progress Variables to Interpret Student Achievement and ProgressDesigning And Using An Embedded Assessment System To Track Student ProgressLinking Developmental Profiles Across Age Groups

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News Support Division invited all EESD-funded programs to participate in the early implementation of the Desired Results Developmental Profile 2015 (DRDP(2015)). The suite of developmental observational assessments are valid and reliable for use with all children from early infancy to kindergarten entry.

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