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Explore the world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits. The new 15th anniversary edition shows you the most popular books at each grade level, exciting new titles, and much more.
University ties underpin the quality of FastBridge’s assessments—many of which emerged from collaborations with leading education researchers and psychometricians across the country.
FastBridge’s research-based assessments have been developed in collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Minnesota, Georgia, Missouri, Buffalo, South Florida, as well as Penn State and Syracuse University. Our goal is to expedite bringing new assessments and innovations to educators.
How it works
All FastBridge assessments are developed through a rigorous research process. Only those that demonstrate high-quality research and significant outcomes receive technical documentation and become assessments.
Ideas are translated into a research study with defined materials, participants, procedures, and techniques to measure outcomes.
Once the research plan is verified, controlled studies are conducted to see if the idea works under ideal conditions. Technical documentation is sent to researchers who are experts in the same topic as the study.
The assessment has been researched and verified in controlled studies and is now available to districts for a limited, trial use to gather feedback.
With multiple sources of high-quality research, the assessment measure is released from Lab and becomes an endorsed assessment for instructional decision making.
Move your state initiatives forward
Learn how FastBridge’s universal screening tools are aligned to your state’s ELA and math learning standards, as well as national standards. Select your state to get started.
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Whitepapers, special reports, guides, and more
Whitepaper
Selecting Assessments and Programs to Support High-Quality SEL for Youth and Adults
Learn key characteristics of an effective adult and youth SEL program, how using universal SEB screening data supports equity, the importance of systematic SEL, and more.
Alignment Guide
Supporting Social-Emotional Behavior Skill Development: Using SAEBRS Assessments & Second Step® Programs Together
Learn how to use Second Step programs in tandem with the SAEBRS assessment suite to bolster SEL supports and effectively allocate key SEL resources in your school or district.
Real stories from real educators
Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) chose FastBridge to provide equitable support to students struggling to read—and saw the biggest increase in literacy scores in ten years.
Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) combines social-emotional behavior (SEB) assessments with academic screening and progress monitoring to gain clearer insight into the “why” behind which skills students are struggling with.
Join FastBridge's research efforts
Are you a doctoral student, faculty member, or state department of education employee? We welcome the use of our measures in ongoing research. If you are interested, please email research@renaissance.com, and the research department will reach out to you soon.
At the risk of being effusive, I want to express my admiration for the psychometric quality of reading assessments and the FastBridge system specifically…simply put, they are so high-quality. I can trust the results and use them to make decisions without worrying.
Stephanie Snidarich • Researcher, University of Minnesota
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