Wanjing Anya Ma
@anyawma.bsky.social
PhD Candidate #StanfordGSE former classroom teacher, special ed researcher, and psychometrician
#NYUSteinhardt '18 💜 #PennGSE '19
anyawma.github.io
#NYUSteinhardt '18 💜 #PennGSE '19
anyawma.github.io
Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for featuring our study! @jyeatman.bsky.social @klint.bsky.social
Assessing reading skills for an entire school’s worth of children is challenging and time-consuming – unless you’re using ROAR-CAT! 📚🦁Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) to assess reading abilities. Post by Anthony Cruz; #psynomBRM paper by @anyawma, @KlintKanopka and colleagues buff.ly/IuhWKaB
July 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for featuring our study! @jyeatman.bsky.social @klint.bsky.social
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Causality is a challenge in human neuroscience and intervention studies are few and far between. Though not a RCT, the longitudinal intervention design from @jamielmitchell.bsky.social offers insights into the balance between stability and plasticity in dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Small or absent Visual Word Form Area is a trait of dyslexia
Understanding the balance between plastic and persistent traits in the dyslexic brain is critical for developing effective interventions. This longitudinal intervention study examines the Visual Word ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Causality is a challenge in human neuroscience and intervention studies are few and far between. Though not a RCT, the longitudinal intervention design from @jamielmitchell.bsky.social offers insights into the balance between stability and plasticity in dyslexia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Now powering LEVANTE tasks as well!
Tour de force from @anyawma.bsky.social developing a new, computer-adaptive approach to reading assessment at scale for use in research and educational practice! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing - Behavior Research Methods
The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is a web-based lexical decision task that measures single-word reading abilities in children and adults without a proctor. Here we study whether item resp...
link.springer.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Now powering LEVANTE tasks as well!
My first PhD paper is out! I want to thank my advisors @jyeatman.bsky.social and Ben, and my collaborators (Amy, Adam, @klint.bsky.social , and Clem) and many people (including school partners) who supported this work! Nothing can be more rewarding to see ROAR-CAT helping classrooms every day! 🐈
Tour de force from @anyawma.bsky.social developing a new, computer-adaptive approach to reading assessment at scale for use in research and educational practice! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
ROAR-CAT: Rapid Online Assessment of Reading ability with Computerized Adaptive Testing - Behavior Research Methods
The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is a web-based lexical decision task that measures single-word reading abilities in children and adults without a proctor. Here we study whether item resp...
link.springer.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My first PhD paper is out! I want to thank my advisors @jyeatman.bsky.social and Ben, and my collaborators (Amy, Adam, @klint.bsky.social , and Clem) and many people (including school partners) who supported this work! Nothing can be more rewarding to see ROAR-CAT helping classrooms every day! 🐈
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Sign up for our first ROAR@Home BETA research study! roar.stanford.edu/homesignup/
January 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Sign up for our first ROAR@Home BETA research study! roar.stanford.edu/homesignup/
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@anyawma.bsky.social is now recruiting for an online reading research study. Children of all ages and reading abilities are invited to participate: roar.education/register/?co...
ROAR
roar.education
January 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@anyawma.bsky.social is now recruiting for an online reading research study. Children of all ages and reading abilities are invited to participate: roar.education/register/?co...
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Thrilled to see ROAR beside some other excellent tools and excited to serve my state through our Research Practice Partnership model! edsource.org/2024/reading...
State takes another step toward mandatory testing for reading difficulties in 2025
Districts will have four options for screening instruments to identify reading difficulties among students in kindergarten through second grade.
edsource.org
December 20, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Thrilled to see ROAR beside some other excellent tools and excited to serve my state through our Research Practice Partnership model! edsource.org/2024/reading...
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I am so incredibly proud of my team! ROAR emerged from a decade of cognitive neuroscience research into the mechanisms of reading disabilities. Now, with over 30 contributors and a half dozen publications, ROAR has just been approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of CA! www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cl/
California Literacy - Teaching & Learning (CA Dept of Education)
Guidance and resources for teachers and families in Preschool through twelfth (P–12) grade schools regarding evidence-based literacy instruction.
www.cde.ca.gov
December 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
I am so incredibly proud of my team! ROAR emerged from a decade of cognitive neuroscience research into the mechanisms of reading disabilities. Now, with over 30 contributors and a half dozen publications, ROAR has just been approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of CA! www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cl/
Data!
Do you need educational and psychological item response data to do your research? The IRW has 600 item response datasets (more coming!), distributed in a standardized format and ready for analysis.
December 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Data!
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I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
www.vislearnlab.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
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See website for more details!
datapages.github.io/irw/
datapages.github.io/irw/
Item Response Warehouse
Open: The data are licensed for reformatting and public reuse. Their provenance is documented and code used to transform original data to meet the IRW data standard is available.Harmonized: The data a...
datapages.github.io
December 10, 2024 at 5:40 PM
See website for more details!
datapages.github.io/irw/
datapages.github.io/irw/
Glad to be part of this innovative & impactful team work! 🤩
Newest ROAR paper introducing Sentence Reading Efficiency is out! I’m not the biggest fan of AI in education but I think this is a really cool use case showing how simulating students taking an assessment can be used to create reliable and precise test forms www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Frontiers | Development and validation of a rapid and precise online sentence reading efficiency assessment
The speed at which students can accurately read and understand connected text is at the foundation of reading development. Timed reading measures go under a ...
www.frontiersin.org
December 14, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Glad to be part of this innovative & impactful team work! 🤩