Post on 27-Mar-2015
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Tests of Early LiteracyCBMReading trajectories are established early and become more difficult to change.
--Roland Good
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3rd Grade State Benchmark in Reading - ORF
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Goal of 110 WPM
3rd grade reading fluency
Three-Tiered Assessment ModelThree-Tiered Assessment Model
Tier 1:BENCHMARKBENCHMARKUniversal Screening for all students
Tier 2:STRATEGIC MONITORSTRATEGIC MONITORMonthly monitoring for students who are mild to moderate risk for failure
Tier 3: PROGRESS PROGRESS MONITORMONITORIntensive monitoring towards specific goals for students at significant risk for failure
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Three-Tiered Assessment Model: Three-Tiered Assessment Model: BenchmarkBenchmark
Tier 1:BENCHMARKUniversal Screeningfor all students
Tier 2:STRATEGIC MONITORMonthly monitoring for students who are at mild to moderate risk for failure
Tier 3:PROGRESS MONITORIntensive monitoring towards specific goals for students at risk for failure1
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BENCHMARK : Universal ScreeningBENCHMARK : Universal Screening
• Universal ScreeningUniversal Screening
• Identification of students at-risk for Identification of students at-risk for failure failure
• Program evaluation across all Program evaluation across all students students
• 1-4 minutes to complete 1-4 minutes to complete AIMSweb® assessments AIMSweb® assessments
• Some AIMSweb® assessments Some AIMSweb® assessments are individually administered, while are individually administered, while
others may be done as a group. others may be done as a group.
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Measures Currently Available via AIMSweb®:Measures Currently Available via AIMSweb®:
• Early Literacy[K-1 benchmark, Progress Monitor (PM) any age]
– Letter Naming Fluency– Letter sound fluency– Phonemic Segmentation Fluency– Nonsense Word Fluency
• Early Numeracy (K-1 benchmark, PM any age)– Oral Counting– Number identification– Quantity discrimination– Missing number
• Oral Reading (K-8, PM any age)• MAZE (Reading comprehension); (1-8, PM any age)• Math Computation (1-6, PM any age)• Math Facts (PM any age)• Spelling (1-8, PM any age)• Written Expression (1-8, PM any age)
All students in an academic curriculum are “benchmarked” three times per year across any/all of these assessment areas.
AIMSweb as a Program Evaluation Tool: AIMSweb as a Program Evaluation Tool: Benchmark 3x/year for Universal Screening—Benchmark 3x/year for Universal Screening—AllAll KidsKids
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
Michael Martin:Michael Martin: A student with Benchmark Data that indicates he is performing significantly behind peers at his school.
Fall Benchmark Data for Michael MartinFall Benchmark Data for Michael Martin
Martin, Michael: Grade 5
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
DiscussionDiscussion: Consider Michael’s R-CBM performance in : Consider Michael’s R-CBM performance in relationship to different AIMSweb® Comparison Groupsrelationship to different AIMSweb® Comparison Groups
Grade 5:Michael’s SchoolMichael’s School
Grade 5: Michael’s DistrictMichael’s District
Grade 5: National National Aggregate NormsAggregate Norms
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
Individual Report: 33rdrd Grade Student Grade Student
Data to Know that Things Went WellThings Went Well
QUESTIONS:
• What does report suggest about Heather A’s progress?
• SPRINGSPRING: Compared to Grade 3 peers at her school, is Heather performing in the: - Well Above Average Range? - Above Average Range? - Average Range? - Below Average Range? - Well-Below Average Range?
Three-Tiered Assessment Model: Three-Tiered Assessment Model: Strategic MonitorStrategic Monitor
TIER 1 BENCHMARKUniversal Screening
TIER 2STRATEGIC MONITORMonthly monitoring for students who are questionable or of concern
TIER 3PROGRESS MONITORIntensive monitoring towards specific goals for at-risk students
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AIMSweb as a Program Evaluation Tool: AIMSweb as a Program Evaluation Tool: Schools May Schools May Strategic MonitorStrategic Monitor Monthly for students at Monthly for students at Mild to Moderate RiskMild to Moderate Risk
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
Tier 2: Strategic MonitorTier 2: Strategic Monitor
Strategic Monitor:Strategic Monitor:(1x/month)
Provides option to increase assessment frequency from three times per year to once per month for select students.
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
Example of Strategic Monitor report containing monthly data collected over a full school year
Strategic Monitoring: October (Jared Reed)Strategic Monitoring: October (Jared Reed)
(All identifying information and scores
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Intensive monitoring of individualized goals for Intensive monitoring of individualized goals for students at-risk of failurestudents at-risk of failure
TIER 3: Progress Monitor
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Progress Monitor (Tier 3):Progress Monitor (Tier 3): Intensive assessment with adjustable Intensive assessment with adjustable
frequency that matches needfrequency that matches need
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)
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BenchmarkBenchmark(Tier 1):(Tier 1): 3x per year3x per year
Strategic Monitoring Strategic Monitoring (Tier 2):(Tier 2): 1x per month for select 1x per month for select studentsstudentsat risk for educational at risk for educational difficulties difficulties
Progress MonitorProgress Monitor(Tier 3):(Tier 3): Intensive assessment with Intensive assessment with adjustable frequency that adjustable frequency that matches needmatches need
(All identifying information and scores are fictitious.)