This Online Manual serves to guide Examiners in system setup, test administration activities and the generation of score reports for the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) test. For additional information, detailed, topic-specific resource guides can be accessed from the Help tab in the DRP Online Administration system.
All computer workstations intended for use in the administration of the online DRP must have the DRP application logo visible on the desktop prior to testing. Specific instructions on software installation can be found in DRP Online Resource Guide: Quick Start Guide for additional information. If you have any questions, you can contact Questar by phone or email at:
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qFrom the Home Page, scroll down until you see Student Logins, at the bottom right corner. Click on Student Logins.
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The Student Test Login Ticket prints out as a two-part PDF as shown.
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qStudents will click the DRP logo on their desktops to launch the application.
wStudents will enter their case sensitive username and password exactly as they appear on their login ticket and click the Login button. For the Tutorial, all students will use the generic Tutorial Username: DRP and Tutorial Password: practice
eOn the next screen, students will confirm that their information is correct, then click CONTINUE. (If corrections are required, see your test administrator.)
rOn the next screen, students will confirm that the correct form name is displayed, then click the name of the form to load the test.
Student Log In
The first step in giving the DRP Online Tests, Practice Tests, or Tutorial is to have students log in:
If the DRP Student Testing system icon is not on student computers, contact your Test Coordinator or refer to the Quick Start Guide on the DRP Online Administration System Help Tab.
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Optional DRP Tutorial
The Tutorial helps students explore the DRP Online test environment and enables them to try out the tools available. The Tutorial may be administered in a guided group or students may work through it themselves. It is designed to take about 10 minutes.
qAfter students log in, the Tutorial begins with a brief introduction.
wThe first page of the Tutorial shows a sample item, and the basic tools and functions students need to select their answers and navigate through the test.
eThe next page of the Tutorial describes optional tools.
Questar recommends that all administrators, Examiners, and students take the Tutorial before beginning Practice or operational DRP Tests.
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rNext, the Tutorial shows a sample DRP passage and items. Students do not have to read the entire passage but should become familiar with the format of the test.
tThe REVIEW button will allow students to access the Review Screen.
yThe final two screens of the Tutorial cover the Review Screen, which allows students go back to any bookmarked or unanswered question in the test by clicking on it.
uWhen students are done, they click on SUBMIT MY TEST and are asked to confirm their submission.
Optional DRP Tutorial
An optional script to lead students through the Tutorial is available on the Help tab of your Home Page.
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Optional DRP Practice Test
The optional DRP Online Practice Test allows students to practice using the DRP passage and answering the seven passage questions. Students can see their results immediately upon completion of the Practice Test. To administer the Practice Test:
qAfter students log in, confirm their information, and select the form name, the Practice Test will begin with a directions screen.
wThe next two screens contain test directions and brief sample items that you should review with students.
eAfter the sample items, the next screen will direct students to wait for your instruction to begin. You may use this opportunity to provide any final instructions you may have.
Students will see a Practice Test Score when they finish taking the Practice Test. This score will ONLY be visible at the conclusion of this session. The system does not save it, so students should write it down if they want to remember it.
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rEach test screen contains a single passage. Students will need to scroll to see the entire passages and all the items. Students may bookmark questions as they go.
tWhen students reach the end of the Practice Test, they must access the Review Screen by clicking the REVIEW button.
yThe Review Screen allows students go back to any bookmarked or unanswered question in the Practice Test by clicking on it. (The REVIEW button on the test screens will return students to the Review Screen.)
uStudents click on SUBMIT MY TEST when they are finished. After they confirm their test submission, they may exit the system.
An optional Practice Test Administration script is available on the Help tab of your Home Page.
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To give the DRP Online Test:
qAfter students log in, confirm their information, and select the form name, the test will begin with a directions screen.
wThe next two screens contain test directions and brief sample items that you should review with students.
eAfter the sample items, the next screen will direct students to wait for your instruction to begin. You may use this opportunity to provide any final instructions you may have.
Once you have administered the DRP Online, your students’ tests are ready to be scored. Please refer to the section entitled “Score Reports,” which describes how to generate and print reports.
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rEach test screen contains a single passage. Students will need to scroll to see the entire passage and all the items. The DRP Online is designed to take 40 to 45 minutes, but it is not a timed test.
tStudents may bookmark questions as they go.
yWhen students reach the end of the test, they must access the Review Screen by clicking the REVIEW button.
uThe Review Screen allows students to go back to any bookmarked or unanswered question in the test by simply clicking on it. (The REVIEW button on the test screens will return students to the Review Screen.)
iStudents click on SUBMIT MY TEST when they are finished. After they confirm their test submission, they may exit the system.
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Reports can be saved to PDF or printed.
Roster Reports can also be saved as Excel Spreadsheets.
Score Reports
qClick on the Reports Tab from the Home Page.
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Individual Performance Charts can be produced for all the students in a grade within a school and within the district. They show the distribution of student performance grouped by instructional reading levels according to the three major CCSS reading skills areas:
• Key Ideas & Details
• Craft & Structure
• Integration of Knowledge & Ideas.
The numbers of test items that assess these standards and the student’s raw score on each of these areas are shown.
:edarGE-3 81:tnedutS 3 Date of Test: 01/15/13In January, 18 took a Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) Core Comprehension Test. 18's performance on this test is reported and interpreted in the following table and chart.
Test Form: 3E Instructional DRP (P=.70): 29 Key Ideas & Details: 8 of 17 PracticeRaw Score: 18 of 49 Independent DRP (P=.90): 15 Craft & Structure: 7 of 16 PracticeNational %ile*: 27 Integration of Knowledge & Ideas: 3 of 16 TeachThe DRP Core Comprehension Test measures a student's ability to read and understand increasingly complex text. Three diagnostic scores indicate the student's comprehension of key ideas and details, knowledge of vocabulary, and analysis of ideas developed within the text. An instructional interpretation is provided to assist teachers in planning appropriate intervention or enrichment: Teach (Introduce), Practice or Apply.
Instructional DRP Scores indicate the most difficult text that a student can read with 70 percent comprehension.Assistance from teachers or parents will be needed for students to read such materials with higher comprehension or to read more difficult texts.Independent DRP Scores indicate the most difficult text that a student can read with 90 percent or higher comprehension.
Examples of the materials which 18 is able to comprehend are shown below. 18's Instructional DRP Score is plotted.
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DRP Unit Difficulty of Materials at Various DRP ValuesScale
Important: The DRP values shown below are quantitative measures of text difficulty, a critical element of the Common Core Standard's three-part model of text complexity. Quantitative and qualitative indices of text difficulty must be balanced with educators' professional judgment and students' knowledge, interests, and motivation when matching readers and texts.
75 Professional Journals**
72 International News Magazines**
70 College and Career Readiness (CCR)
68 Front Page of National Newspapers**
64 State Driver's Manuals**62 Sports Section of Newspapers**
78 Experimental Science Journals**
External Benchmarks
71 Declaration of Independence70 First Year College Texts**69 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy67 The Scarlet Letter
65 The Longitude Prize63 Vincent Van Gogh62 High School Textbooks**61 Jane Eyre59 A Night to Remember57 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings56 Middle School Textbooks**55 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer53 In the Time of the Butterflies
51 A Wrinkle in Time
75 America's Constitution: A Biography
55 The Birchbark House53 The Secret Garden51 Bud, Not Buddy50 Elementary School Textbooks**49 Bat Loves the Night47 Sunshine Makes the Seasons45 The Treasure43 The Stories Julian Tells
41 Frog and Toad Together40 Primary School Textbooks**39 Inch by Inch
58 Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms
37 My Five Senses
34 Are You My Mother?
31 Green Eggs and Ham
Books forChildren
Books for Teensand Young Adults
25 Understands Simple Paragraphs
19 Begins to Understand Simple ParagraphsParagraphs lessthan 250 words
** Average DRP Value
* Normative data based on 2000 National Norms reported for Spring.
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Date report generated: 04/11/2013
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE CHARTDRP Core Comprehension Test Scores
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eShows the number of items the student answered correctly at each of the three CCSS Reading Skills Areas, along with the corresponding interpretive suggestions.
rStudent’s score is plotted on the DRP Unit Scale.
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Profile Reports can be produced for all the students in a grade within a school and within the district. They are descriptive and graphic reports designed to provide summary information about the group of students tested. The reports show the distribution of student performance and measures of central tendency (such as mean and median) grouped by reading level as measured in DRP Units and CCSS Grade Levels.
qFrequency Distribution bars indicate how many students scored at each point on the DRP scale.
wDRP Scale of text complexity ranges, in theory, from 0 to 100 units, with higher values indicating more difficult material.
ePerformance Benchmarks show types of materials that students at various levels will be able to comprehend.
rRaw Score is the total number of correct answers.
tDRP Scores represent a group’s reading ability in terms of the average most difficult text that students can read with a given level of comprehension.
yNational Percentile Rank indicates how the group’s performance compares to the performance of students nationally.
uCCSS Text Complexity Expectations indicates the most difficult text students at the reported grade level should be able to read with 70% comprehension to be “on” or “above” grade level and the percent of reported students performing Above, On, or Below Grade Level.
The DRP Core Comprehension Test measures a student's ability to read and understand increasingly complex texts. The ability to construct meaning from text is a prerequisite for doing more advanced work with text, e.g., extending and integrating ideas over multiple texts.
Instructional DRP Scores indicate the most difficult text that students can read with 70 percent comprehension.Assistance from teachers or parents will be needed for students to read such materials with higher comprehension or to read more difficult texts.Independent DRP Scores indicate the most difficult text that students can read with 90 percent or higher comprehension.
Examples of materials which your students are able to comprehend can be obtained from the chart below.Instructional DRP Scores are plotted in the chart below.
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Important: The DRP values shown below are quantitative measures of text difficulty, a critical element of the Common Core Standard's three-part model of text complexity. Quantitative and qualitative indices of text difficulty must be balanced with educators' professional judgment and students' knowledge, interests, and motivation when matching readers and texts.
Books for Teensand Young Adults
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71 Declaration of Independence70 First Year College Texts**69 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy67 The Scarlet Letter
65 The Longitude Prize63 Vincent Van Gogh62 High School Textbooks**61 Jane Eyre
59 A Night to Remember
57 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings56 Middle School Textbooks**55 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
53 In the Time of the Butterflies
51 A Wrinkle in Time
55 The Birchbark House
53 The Secret Garden51 Bud, Not Buddy50 Elementary School Textbooks**49 Bat Loves the Night
47 Sunshine Makes the Seasons45 The Treasure43 The Stories Julian Tells
41 Frog and Toad Together40 Primary School Textbooks**39 Inch by Inch
58 Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms
37 My Five Senses
34 Are You My Mother?
31 Green Eggs and Ham
25 Understands Simple Paragraphs
19 Begins to Understand Simple Paragraphs
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Test Form: 3E Raw Score DRP (P=.90) Scores DRP (P=.70) Scores National %iles*Test Date: 01/15/13 Mean: 24.5 Mean: 22 Mean: 36 Mean: 27No. Students: 50 Median: 25 Median: 22 Median: 36 Median: 27No. Items: 49
CCSS Text Complexity Expectations by end of Grade 3A - Above Grade Level 55 (P=.70) A 8leveL edarG evob (16.0%)
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* Normative data based on 2000 National Norms reported for Spring. Date report generated: 04/11/2013
GRADE 3 TEACHER PROFILEDRP Core Comprehension Test Scores
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Rosters can be produced for all the students in a grade within a school. They provide specific information about each student in the group tested, as well as measures of central tendency (such as mean and median) for Raw Score, DRP Score, National Percentile Ranks, and CCSS Comprehension Clusters (Key Ideas & Details, Craft & Structure, and Integration of Knowledge & Ideas).
Test Date Test No. of No. of Raw Score DRP Score (P=.70) National Percentile* Key Ideas & Details Craft & Structure Integration of Knowledge & IdeasForm Items Students Mean Median Mean Median Mean Median Items Mean Median Items Mean Median Items Mean Median
06/28/13 3A 56 14 34.4 33 45 44 50 48 21 13 13 15 9.1 10 20 12.2 113 T103701 QTeacher QTeacher, T103701-Class 1 QAI Test 10 Juliet High
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Bynes, Andrea 20 28 31 34 23 34 21 56 7·7·2·2·1·0·1·1 7 Teach 5 Teach 9 Teach Below Grade Level
Danon, Jane 79 87 90 93 99+ 99 56 56 7·7·7·7·7·7·7·7 21 Apply 15 Apply 20 Apply Above Grade Level
Franklin, Ben 54 62 65 68 95 85 51 56 7·7·6·7·5·7·7·5 18 Apply 14 Apply 19 Apply Above Grade Level
Gilbert, Amanda 65 73 76 79 99+ 99 54 56 6·7·7·7·7·7·6·7 20 Apply 14 Apply 20 Apply Above Grade Level
Hernandez, Helena 31 39 42 45 50 50 34 56 5·4·7·4·2·7·3·2 13 Practice 10 Practice 11 Practice Below Grade Level
Jackson, Mike 29 37 40 43 46 48 32 56 0·2·2·0·7·7·7·7 12 Practice 10 Practice 10 Teach Below Grade Level
Lopez, Maria 27 35 38 41 40 45 29 56 1·2·6·7·7·1·5·0 13 Practice 4 Teach 12 Practice Below Grade Level
Miller, Jill 14 14 16 19 4 13 8 56 2·1·1·1·1·0·2·0 4 Teach 3 Teach 1 Teach Below Grade Level
Roberts, Emma 50 58 61 64 92 80 49 56 7·7·7·7·0·7·7·7 16 Apply 15 Apply 18 Apply Above Grade Level
Taylor, Tina 30 38 41 44 48 49 33 56 7·7·7·0·2·0·3·7 12 Practice 10 Practice 11 Practice Below Grade Level
Vernan, Francine 79 87 90 93 99+ 99 56 56 7·7·7·7·7·7·7·7 21 Apply 15 Apply 20 Apply Above Grade Level
Williams, Mason 21 29 32 35 25 36 22 56 7·4·0·1·5·0·3·2 11 Practice 4 Teach 7 Teach Below Grade Level
Wilson, Jeffrey 29 37 40 43 46 48 31 56 7·4·5·2·1·4·7·1 12 Practice 8 Practice 11 Practice Below Grade Level
Wright, Scott 14 14 14 14 2 7 5 56 1·1·1·2·0·0·0·0 2 Teach 1 Teach 2 Teach Below Grade Level
* Normative data based on 2000 National Norms reported for Spring.
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Date report generated: 06/28/2013The group mean, median and percentile statistics will fluctuate prior to all students completing testing.
GRADE 3 CLASS ALPHABETICAL ROSTERDRP Core Comprehension Test Scores
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