DIBELS NextIntroduction Webinar

Oregon Reading First Center

April 1, 2010

Materials reproduced with permission of Dynamic Measurement Group © 2010

Today’s Agenda

• Why use DIBELS Next?• New features

• DIBELS Next 7th Edition Overview• What Has Not Changed• Important Dates and Timelines• Recommendations and Things to Consider• DIBELS Data System Updates• Questions• Upcoming Training Opportunities

DIBELS Trivia• What year did the DIBELS Data System

start operating?• 1995

• 1998

• 1990

• 1993

• And with how many districts?• 3• 8• 5• 10

Why use DIBELS Next?

• Improved measures based on research and user feedback• New directions to facilitate students’

understanding• New content, including all new reading passages• Checklist of common response patterns to aid in

intervention planning• New scores for some measures to enhance

interpretation• New child-friendly font in grades K-2

New Directions to Aid Students’ Understanding

New Items and Content

• Items have been stratified in “layers” of difficulty so that items of all difficulties are randomly assorted throughout each measure• For example, in NWF, all vowels appear in each

line

• Purpose: To control the changes in difficulty from one probe to the next

• Also, all new ORF passages in grades 1-6 (goodbye, Keiko, Kwanzaa, and Shuffleboard!)

Checklist of Common Response Patterns

New Scores for Some Measures

• Nonsense Word Fluency• Whole Words Read (WWR): Student

receives credit for 1 WWR for each whole word read correctly without first being sounded out

• Oral Reading Fluency• Accuracy: Total words - Errors (includes

skipped words) = Words correct• Addition of accuracy to scoring/benchmark

goal

Child-Friendly Font

Why use DIBELS Next?

• New measures!• First Sound Fluency (replaces Initial Sound

Fluency)• DIBELS Daze (DIBELS-Maze) for grades

3-6

Why use DIBELS Next?• New research has been conducted over 4

years on over 25,000 children in over 90 schools• Use of new readability formula to level passages

and decrease variability of DORF scores• New reliability data• New validity data

• Prediction to NAEP and GRADE (K-6 outcome)

• New research on benchmark goals

• New user-friendly format• Easel format for published version• Larger booklet size for downloadable version

(available 5/17/10 from DMG at www.dibels.org)

DIBELS Next: 7th Edition Overview

• All measures have been updated with:• New directions• New items• New child-friendly font• New passages• New practice items• New format

• New look and feel of all materials

• New Measures• First Sound Fluency (FSF)• DIBELS Daze• DIBELS Survey• DIBELS Deep

• Retell is part of DORF• New benchmark goals

available for fall 2010 • Tentative date: 8/31/10

• WUF-R is available as an experimental measure

Redesigned Scoring Booklets: Benchmark Assessment Cover

• 1/2 legal size pages to provide more room for scoring and prompts.

• Integrated response patterns to facilitate linkage to instruction

• Directions are integrated in Student Materials

• Integrated reminders.

• Integrated scoring prompts.

Redesigned Scoring Booklets: Inside Benchmark Assessment• Larger fonts• Running totals for each

row on NWF and ORF• Common response

patterns

Redesigned Scoring Booklet: Progress Monitoring Cover

• Graph on front cover is larger and easier to use

• Horizontal axis is labeled with weeks so booklets can be easily used for out-of-grade-level monitoring

What Has Not Changed

• DIBELS Next are still:• Brief, standardized, repeatable indicators

of Basic Early Literacy Skills• Research-based• Used for universal screening, benchmark

assessment, progress monitoring, and systems evaluation

• Appropriate for use within a Response to Intervention model of service delivery

Important Dates & Timelines• DIBELS Next measures should be available

for download from the DMG website (http://dibels.org) by May 17, 2010 and available for purchase from Sopris West this spring

• Benchmark goals for DIBELS Next measures should be available by August 31, 2010

• Wireless Generation will be able to support DIBELS Next by fall 2011

Recommendations and Things to Consider

• DMG recommends NOT making the transition between DIBELS 6th edition-revised and Next measures during the middle of the school year• Schools in districts don’t have to transition all at

the same time, however, but may want to use a scaffolded adoption process (i.e., 5 schools one year, 5 schools the next)

Recommendations and Things to Consider

• DMG and the DIBELS Data System (DDS) will support DIBELS 6th edition-revised and DIBELS Next for 2 years (through the 2012-2013 school year)• Data will transfer forward with students, but

educators will need to remember when the transition was made

DIBELS Data System Updates

• DIBELS Data System will continue to provide download of and support for the current 6th Edition Revised and DIBELS Next for the 2010-2011 school year

• The first set of reports that will be available for DIBELS Next include: class lists, histograms, and data farming

• Access to the DDS for all Oregon schools (including those using IDEL) will continue to be free

• The DDS team is currently working on integrating easyCBM math measures into schools existing DDS accounts.

Upcoming Training Opportunities

• July 12th-15th• DIBELS Next Essential and Mentoring Trainings,

sponsored by DMG (Eugene, OR)

• August 18th & 20th• DIBELS Next Transition Workshop, sponsored

by the ORFC (Portland, OR)