Do you need to develop new learning assessments?
Do you need to develop an assessment system for your program, school, district, or organization?
The Assessment Team at the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment may be just right for you. Below you can learn more about our assessment services, our current projects, and our pricing.
Our Assessment Services
The assessment team within REA offers expertise in all aspects of the design and use of subject-matter specific assessments, including item, scale, and test development, classroom implementation, data management, data analysis, reporting, and revision of measures. We provide assessment services to instructional materials development projects within the Lawrence Hall of Science and for other organizations. These services include the following:
- Assessment materials design and development
- Test materials printing, distribution and collection
- Document handling and response scanning
- Scoring of constructed response and open-ended items
- Data analysis and psychometrics
- Reporting
- Dissemination
REA staff members have experience designing and analyzing student and teacher learning assessments for a variety of project types: curriculum-embedded assessments, student pre-post learning assessments, assessment validation studies, and program efficacy studies. Our approach involves a principled assessment design, which focuses on a match between client measurement needs, the instrument and the types of questions that should be asked.
Our assessment staff offers expertise in the design and implementation of assessments that measure the breadth and depth of knowledge and skills. The REA assessment team has experience at all levels of education from K-16, in numerous types of learning environments, and with students and teachers. Although our primary experience is with STEM content, we also have experience in the integration of science and literacy, and issue-oriented science.
Our Current Projects
Examples of LHS projects that our REA assessment team currently work on include: Would like links to the following projects
- Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading – grades 2–5
- Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) –Science in Global Issues (SGI) grades 9–12 and Science and Life Issues (SALI) grades 6–8
- Full Option Science System (FOSS) – grades 2–8
- Assessing Science Knowledge (ASK) – grades 2–8
- Science Sequences- Space Science Sequence and Ocean Science Sequence – grades 3–8
We are also involved in developing assessments and assessment systems for a number of external clients (including school districts and materials development projects). For more information about this work, please contact Patty Kreikemeir, Assessment Specialist at pattyk@berkeley.edu or (510) 643-1984.
Our Pricing
The cost of our assessment services varies depending on the scale and scope of the project and funder requirements. We work closely with project leadership to develop a budget that meets the needs and budget of your particular project.
More Information?
Examples of recent assessment items and technical reports are available upon request. To discuss your assessment needs, please contact Rena Dorph, our Center Director, at rdorph@berkeley.edu (510) 642-6477.
