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Rapid online assessment of reading and phonological awareness (ROAR-PA)

Source: R/roarpa.R
roarpa.Rd

The ROAR-PA is an online assessment of phonological awareness, which is a target for early intervention in order to improve reading development. The ROAR-PA was developed, and data collected by, Gijbels et al. (2024), who identified a 3-factor structure that both represents specific skills within phonological awareness and is predictive of future reading development. The data set was uploaded to the Item Response Warehouse (Domingue et al., 2025) and is reformatted here.

Usage

roarpa_data

roarpa_qmatrix

Format

roarpa_data is a tibble containing response data with 272 rows and 58 variables:

  • id: Respondent identifier.

  • del_10-lsm_05: Dichotomous item responses to the 57 ROAR-PA items.

roarpa_qmatrix is a tibble that identifies which ROAR-PA subtest is measured by each item. This data set contains 57 items measuring 3 attributes. The roarpa_qmatrix therefore has 57 rows and 4 variables:

  • item: Item identifier, corresponds to item response columns in roarpa_data.

  • Attribute columns: 3 columns, one for each attribute. Each is a dichotomous indicator for whether or not the attribute is measured by each item. A values of 1 indicates the attribute is measured by the item and a value of 0 indicates the attribute is not measured by the item.

Details

The ROAR-PA assessment consists of 5 subtests, three of which are included in this data set:

  • fsm: First sound matching

  • lsm: Last sound matching

  • del: Deletion

References

Domingue, B., Braginsky, M., Caffrey-Maffei, L., Gilbert, J. B., Kanopka, K., Kapoor, R., Lee, H., Liu, Y., Nadela, S., Pan, G., Zhang, L., Zhang, S., & Frank, M. C. (2025). An introduction to the Item Response Warehouse (IRW): A resource for enhancing data usage in psychometrics. Behavior Research Methods, 57, Article 276. doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02796-y

Gijbels, L., Burkhardt, A., Ma, W. A., & Yeatman, J. D. (2024). Rapid online assessment of reading and phonological awareness (ROAR-PA). Scientific Reports, 14, Article 10249. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-60834-9