The Center for Innovation in Assessment conducts research to analyze assessment and intervention programs to determine whether they are supported by scientifically-based reading research, and to discover whether they are reliable and valid. CIA recently finished such research on the Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessments. Technical reports are now available for Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessment - First Grade, Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessment - Second Grade, and Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessment - Kindergarten.

• Click here for the Kindergarten Technical Report.
• Click here for the Grade 1 Technical Report.
• Click here for the Grade 2 Technical Report.
• Click here for an overview of the scientific research for the Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessments.
• Click here for information about how theIndiana Reading Diagnostic Assessments address the eight principles identified as important for effective literacy assessment as published by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).
• Click here for SBRR skills assessed in the Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessments.