Developmental Reading Assessment, 3rd Edition

The DRA3 combines decades of teacher input with the latest research to validate the premier reading assessment of individual student reading behaviors in the classroom.

Benefits

DRA3 offers:

• More than 100 fiction and nonfiction books to provide your students ample choices
• New word list screener to help estimate the best starting levels for younger students or new students entering a school or district
• Redesigned Teacher Observation Guides (record forms) to facilitate easier recording and efficient assigning of scores
• Reorganized Teacher Guides to ensure important administration procedures, decision points, and other information are all easier to find, understand, and implement with fidelity
• Updated comprehension scoring criteria
• Reading Engagement as an optional component of Benchmark Assessment

With DRA3, teachers can:

• Determine each student's independent or instructional reading level with an evaluation of three components of reading: reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension.
• Quickly determine students' instructional needs to create a plan documenting what each student needs to learn next with the Focus for Instruction. Once the assessment is complete, teachers can use this information to differentiate instruction and create instructional groups.
• As appropriate, a teacher can obtain more in-depth information for an individual student with DRA Word Analysis. This diagnostic assessment provides educators with a systematic means to observe how struggling and emerging readers attend to and work with various components of spoken and written words.

Features

What's new to DRA3?

DRA has continued to evolve over the past three decades. Here's what you can expect from the new DRA3!

• Level estimator
  New to DRA! Save time to quickly identify estimated student reading levels before you begin testing. Learn more about the Level estimator, giving you an indication of where to begin instruction.
• Expanded book offering
  MORE brand-new nonfiction and fiction texts means even more stories for each reading level.
• Online platform
  Assess, score, report, and maintain student records all in one place through DRA3's new online platform, making it easier to assess and manage data all in one place! 

DRA's new consolidated digital offering:

• Provides educators data entry and administration in a new browser-based solution that can be used on any compatible device (e.g., laptop, desktop or tablet)
• Offers expanded reporting options beyond those available from a paper-only assessment
• Easily captures, stores, and reports DRA3 student data at the student, class, school,  or district level

DRA3's instructional guidance helps reading teachers interpret DRA3 scores and use them to improve classroom instruction by providing:

• Comparisons to other familiar leveling systems
• Strategies teachers can use to build customized lesson plans based on DRA3 student and classroom scores
• Time-tested ideas introduced in DRA2's Focus for Instruction and Moving into Instruction components
• Clearer guidance decision points for efficient and appropriate use of DRA3 Benchmark Assessment with Word Analysis and/or Progress Monitoring Assessment

The following resources are available.

• DRA3 Overview
• DRA3 Information Sheet
• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) Feature Comparison
• The Research Behind the DRA3 Benchmark Assessments Whitepaper
• DRA3 Benchmark Assessment Books

• Audio: Popular questions answered (5 mins) (September, 2019)
• Video: Remote Assessment with the DRA
• Video: The importance of reading assessments Presented by: DRA authors Joetta Beaver and Mark Carter, PhD
• Video: Unboxing DRA3
• Video: "Unboxing" the DRA3 online digital platform
• Video: DRA3’s Digital Platform: On-demand Resources
• Video: A Closer Look at DRA3's 100+ Benchmark Assessment Books

DRA3 Infographics

• DRA3 Progress Monitoring Infographic
• DRA3 Word Analysis Infographic

• DRA3 Benchmark Assessments Infographic
• Are you leveraging DRA3's online platform?

Other

• DRA3 Measures

Keystone/ATP Merge FAQs

Will my same Keystone login credentials work on the new ATP platform?

No, you will receive a welcome email from the new ATP platform with your first-time login credentials. Using the information and link provided, you will need to reset your password.

Will all my account information be transferred (schools, users, licenses, students, etc.)?

All the same functionalities will continue to be available, but some buttons/selections may be in a different area of the screen or perhaps be a different color.

The testing experience will be nearly identical, but the administrative tasks will be a little different as they will now match the ATP platform model. This will ensure consistency across all the products.

What if we were in the middle of a test?

Testing and data updates for DRA™3, EDL™2, and/or WriteToLearn™ will be unavailable July 15–31 to prevent interrupted testing or data loss as we transition to the new platform.

Please be sure to schedule your testing to conclude before July 15 or postpone starting any tests until August 1. We thank you for your cooperation with this scheduling.

I think something’s wrong with my account. Whom should I contact for help?

Please contact our Clinical Customer Support  team by web form or by calling 1-800-328-5999. Representatives are available from 6:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday.

On ATP, will there be a change in the way I order?

There will be no change for NNAT3 and/or TELL customers – orders will continue to be placed directly on the ATP platform

For DRA3, EDL3 and WTL customers, you will now get to place your orders directly from your account on the ATP platform and enjoy instantaneous provisioning of your online licenses. We’ll provide training videos to walk you through this new process.

What does the ATP site look like?

Here's a sneak peek into the new platform!