Quantitative Methodology and Innovation

QMI’s mission is to advance scientific discovery through multi-disciplinary collaboration on research design, data analysis, and innovation in quantitative methods and assessment. Please use the navigation bar to learn more about QMI’s mission, people, projects, and products.

FCRR researchers explore the pandemic’s short- and long-term impacts on children’s reading skills

September 19, 2022

Dr. Sara Hart and Dr. Callie Little have received a $2.9 million grant from NICHD to conduct a five-year study to uncover the mechanisms through which COVID-19 has and will continue to have impacts on children’s reading skills.

Quantitative Methodology and Innovation Announces New Website

September 27, 2019

The Quantitative Methodology and Innovation (QMI) division, through multi-disciplinary collaborations, aims to partner with researchers, government agencies, and private companies to support scientific inquiry with rigorous research design, data analysis, and innovation in quantitative methods and assessment.

Conditional Longitudinal Relations of Elementary Literacy Skills to High School Reading Comprehension

July 1, 2019

The Journal of Learning Disabilities recently accepted a paper titled, “Conditional Longitudinal Relations of Elementary Literacy Skills to High School Reading Comprehension,” authored by Yaacov Petscher, Hugh Catts, and Emily Solari. The study explores the longitudinal development between Grade 3 word level reading skills and higher level semantic skills to Grade 10 reading comprehension for 3,157 students.

Differential Co-Development of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension for Students with and without Learning Disabilities

June 1, 2019

A paper was recently accepted in the Journal of Educational Psychology entitled, ‘Differential Co-Development of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension for Students with and without Learning Disabilities.” This paper looked at the co-development of reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge for students followed from Kindergarten through 4th grade using latent change score modeling.

FSU researchers partner to improve statewide assessment for persons with disabilities

January 16, 2019

The Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University along with the FSU College of Social Work is partnering with Florida’s Agency for Persons with Disabilities to evaluate and improve their assessment tool for people with developmental disabilities.

Products

Adolescent Assessment of Literacy

This assessment has been specially developed as a screener to assess literacy skills of students from the 3rd to the 12th grade.

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Adolescent Grief Response Inventory

An instrument to assess the multidimensional aspects of grief in response to the death of a loved one as it pertains to adolescents.

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Correlations, Cutpoints, and Classification

This application will generate a scatter plot with cut points from user input such as correlation, screen cut point, and outcome cut point. Additionally, a host of classification information is provided from these three inputs (assuming bivariate normality). This application will alsoprovide expected positive and negative predictive values based upon sensitivity, specificity, and the baserate of the problem.

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DELV Ability Score Lookup

This application uses IRT to find a student's ability score based on DELV-S responses input by the user.

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Latent Growth Tool

This application allows the user to analyze their own longitudinal data. The submitted data is used to fit many different Latent Growth models and allows the user to conveniently compare the results.

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Oral • Reading • Fluency & Reading Comprehension

This application graphically compares different reading fluency and reading comprehension scores. It also generates various model predictions based on those scores.

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Quantile Regression Tool

This application allows the user to analyze their own data by fitting various quantile regression models. The app also provides an easy way to customize plots and tables representing the model outputs. These outputs can be exported for furthur analysis and study.

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Screening Tool Selector

This application will assist the user in choosing an academic reading screening tool that best fits their needs. The application will search through the current screeners advertised at charts.intensiveintervention.org and provide a checklist, based on user input, highlighting the screeners that fit the most criteria.

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