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easyCBM Assessment, Screening and Progress Monitoring Made Easy! Oklahoma Reading Sufficiency Grades K-3
Assessment, Screening and Progress Monitoring Made Easy!
Oklahoma Reading Sufficiency Grades K-3
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Greetings and welcome to today’s overview of easyCBM if you need additional information please contact: Scott Dittner, Senior Assessment Consultant, [email protected] 405 820 7000
Progress made easy for Reading
• Curriculum-Based Measurement
• Universal Screening/Benchmarking
• Progress Monitoring
• Grades K-3
• Reading and Mathematics
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easyCBM is a district assessment system designed to address all three tiers of the Response to Intervention process for grades Kindergarten to 8th grade. This tool gives administrators, teachers, and intervention specialists a full range of assessment and reporting options to best serve their school district. easyCBM provides a diverse portfolio of reading and math curriculum-based measurements that can be used for universal screening, intervention planning, and progress monitoring, providing data educational teams need to drive decision making.
Basic Tenets of CBM
• Designed to provide information regarding students’ response to intervention.
• Answers the question ‘is learning happening within the intervention?’
• Provides diagnostic and benchmark assessments for reading and mathematics
• Validated to represent critical growth indicators of student achievement.
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easyCBM provides crucial information for teachers, administrators, and education specialists need, in order to make data-driven decisions. It is important to emphasize to customers that while the assessments are useful for Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and as a tool for initial evaluations for reading/math learning disabilities, easyCBM is specifically designed and useful as an RTI program.
Response to Intervention
• Progress monitoring essential
• Evaluate the impact of interventions
• Enhance the rate of student learning
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It is important to note RTI is a general education initiative, so easyCBM is intended to help both General Ed and Special Education – Not just a special education tool. It is designed to be a bridge between progress and planning. It is also meant to provide guidance for early intervention to reduce number of referrals to special ed and only have those students who are truly “not responding” assessed for special education There are two aspects to RTI – assessment and instruction. easyCBM focuses on the assessment and provides data meant to drive intervention or instructional decisions.
History
• University of Oregon, College of Education
• Behavioral Research & Teaching (BRT)
• Development started in January 2006, with a federal grant for a Model Demonstration Project on Progress Monitoring in Early Literacy in a Response to Intervention Framework
‣ Universal design – access for as many students as possible ‣ - measures are reliable, with evidence to support the ‣ decisions they facilitate ‣ - audio for math ‣ - limited language requirements for math Built to motivate students through the assessments Measures progress for the FULL year!
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The website was designed to be simple, intuitive and to be accessible as much as possible to a wide variety of users. For example, math assessments were created to reduce the language load on math concepts (e.g., written two grade levels below), font size was increased so that the content could be easily read, and the math questions can be read aloud by the teacher/examiner.
• Alternate forms MUST be comparable!
If not directly comparable, there is no meaningful interpretation available.
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IRT is the statistical methodology used to ensure that all measures are parallel forms and can be compared to each other. We have 3 forms of the benchmark assessment for each grade and subject area.
easyCBM Provides
• Reading & Math : Grades K-8 • Computer Administration ------------------------------------------------------------- • Benchmark assessments • Progress monitoring measures- all availability • System-level use • Team access • Multi Level Reporting • Student/Group/Class/Building/District
performance
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The Oklahoma State Department of Education has adopted easyCBM for grades K-3 if you would like additional information on grades 4-8 please contact us at the information provided towards the end.
Content
• Reading – K-3
– Spanish – K-2
• Math – K-3
• Common Core State Standards
– Reading 3
Assessments: Alignments
MATHMATICS
• K-8: based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Point Standards
• 6-8: report out to Common Core Standards
READING
• K-8: based on the 'Big Five' constructs of reading reported in the 2000 National Reading Panel report
• 3-8: report out to a main reading skill and reflect changes brought by Common Core Standards
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Teacher developed!
Assessments
• READING: –Early Literacy: Phoneme Segmenting, Letter
Names, Letter Sounds –Fluency: Word Reading Fluency, Passage
Measurement, Algebra, Ratios, Data Analysis • Common Core Math: grades 6-8
Reading Scope & Sequence
Spanish Measures for K-2
Math Scope & Sequence
Administration Time
Grade
Test Name Administration
Time K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Letter Names (B & PM) 1 minute X X Letter Sounds (B & PM) 1 minute X X Phoneme Segmenting (B & PM) 1 minute X X Word Reading Fluency (B & PM) 1 minute X X X X Passage Reading Fluency (B & PM) 1 minute X X X X X X X X Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension (B & PM) 20-40 minutes X X X X X X X Vocabulary (B) 10-15 minutes X X X X X X Math (B) 15-30 minutes X X X X X X X X X Math Numbers and Operations (PM) 8-15 minutes X X X X X X X Math Geometry (PM) 8-15 minutes X X X Math Measurement (PM) 8-15 minutes X X X Math Numbers, Operations, and Algebra (PM) 8-15 minutes X X X X X Math Geometry, Measurement, and Algebra (PM) 8-15 minutes Math Algebra (PM) 8-15 minutes X X Math Numbers, Operations, and Ratios 8-15 minutes X Math Numbers, Operations, Algebra and Geometry (PM) 8-15 minutes X Math Geometry and Measurement (PM) 8-15 minutes X Math Data Analysis, Numbers, Operations, and Algebra (PM) 8-15 minutes X B - Benchmarks PM - Progress Monitoring
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Benchmarks longer? – In math – Benchmarks cover all three focal points in math, where progress monitoring measures are available for each focal point. They are still adding MS measures. K-5 is completely done (17 reading, 10 math). Adding 8 more comprehension for 6th reading. New reading measures 3-8 will match math (10 forms).
Computer Administered
• Item-level data •Minimal data entry •Minimize human error •Real-time access • Instant feedback for students
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Some areas are individually administered due to the nature – for example, reading fluency – student has to read to teacher; but can enter item level data into computer Answers are randomized so students sitting next to each other don’t have the same order. Kindergarten all reading is paper pencil and can do math as online. However, in most cases, teachers may choose to what and do math spring benchmarks on the computer so children are used to the routine. Instant feedback for students – teacher can make some decisions about
Online Data Entry and Scoring of PRF Measures
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You now have the ability to do online scoring for all PRF measures with a timer. No more recording answers on paper and transferring to the system. This will also be available for the Spanish PRF measures.
Basics
Multiple Levels of Access: Administrator District Building Teacher Reports: district building classroom group student
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If you have a district that wants to pilot at one school – still have the URL be the district name. Cannot merge multiple accounts. However, can capture data from easyCBM lite (teacher version) and include in the district – there is an IT process for this.
Reports
Benchmark Performance Report for Individual Students
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The new Benchmark Performance report for individual students shows how the student did on all of their benchmarks for the entire school year. It uses an easy to interpret gauge that corresponds with the district's customized percentile cut-scores. There are options for displaying the percentile numbers, and flipping the rows and columns for a different view of the data. This is a useful report for teachers to share and hand out at parent conferences.
Individual Reports Optimize resources by continuing with proven interventions.
Individual Report
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Teacher selects age range Can cut across years Some students stay in Tier II end of year and beginning of year, etc. Keeps percentiles on the graph – other programs don’t.
Interventions
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Aimsweb will not provide a historical list of interventions like EasyCBM does You can include behavioral interventions to see if they have implications for change in performance. When to Delete Interventions? – only when it wasn’t actually provided
Create Groups from Class Report based on Risk Ratings
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This new feature makes it easy to create student groups directly from the class benchmark report. This makes things easy and efficient for teachers, as well as being nice selling point to show off on sales demos.
Benchmark Report for Classes
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Teachers now have the ability to compare performance across Fall, Winter, and Spring. (See previous slide to show percentiles) In this view, the far right column shows the Growth for each student. This is a quick and easy way for teachers to see how their students performed across the benchmark periods for each measure type.
Building Level
• Benchmark Reports – By Grade – By Teacher
• Risk Analysis – By Grade or Teacher – Numbers or Percentage
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Risk Analysis Report �This report compares student risk ratings for fall vs winter, winter vs spring, and fall vs spring by either building level or Teacher level Can also look at actual number of students who moved or percentage of students��
Group Report
Item Analysis It informs teachers of the specific
assessment objective for each item on the test and lists the items students found easiest to those students found most challenging.
• * Teachers can use this information to help guide their decision-making in terms of what areas to focus on instructionally.
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Can hover over names to highlight
Reports
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Risk analysis – Teachers can just see their students Building can just see their building District and Admin – can see across buildings, grades, etc.
Reports
Group Reports Provide information helpful for grouping students and insight into the item types on which they need more work
Group Report
Student List At bottom of group report allows
teacher to see individual student graph or the actual student assessment.
Grade Comparison Report for Buildings
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This new report allows principals or other building-level and above users to compare student performance across grade levels, or by teacher for a given grade level. All grades for the school are listed, and data can be viewed for a particular measure type, or subject (e.g. reading or math). Clicking on a Grade link in the picture below would drill down into that grade level and you would see a similar looking report, except teacher names would take the place of the grade level links. This report introduces a new interface element described in the legend/key below the report: the colors in the bar indicate the percentage of students (for the grade or teacher) that fall into the High (red), Some (yellow), or Low (white/green) Risk categories. The background behind the bars indicate how students would normally be distributed, depending on the district’s percentile settings (e.g. 10% of students in Red, etc). Hovering your mouse over a fall, winter, or spring bar will highlight that same season for the other grades, making for an easy cross-comparison of just that season, and hovering over a particular color will display the percentage of students in that group.
Ability to Access Previous Years Data
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Ability to Access Previous Years Data: In the Benchmark Scores Report, you now have access to view previous school years for a deeper historical dive into a student’s performance.
Set District Parameters
Customize your “Risk Rating” based upon student
population and available resources
District-wide Grade and Measure Comparison Report
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This report gives a district level admin the ability to view benchmark data in custom combinations to provide analysis across grades, by measure, seasons, etc
School Comparison Report for the District
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This new report gives district personnel a birds eye view in comparing student performance across all of the schools in the district. It quickly lets you see the answer to several questions, such as how a particular school performed across fall, winter, and spring (as well as compare that to other schools), how all of the schools compared just on the Winter benchmarks, how a particular school performed compared to the norm group (the background behind the bars), etc. This report is useful in helping districts make resource and other decisions.
PROCESS
• District – determine system settings – implement universal screening – run benchmark and risk analysis reports
• Teacher
– create groupings – document and provide interventions – assign measures – progress monitor – analyze results – adjust instruction and intervention accordingly
Benefits
• Multi-level Reporting
- Individual and Group
- Intervention Planning
- Risk Analysis
• Simple and Flexible Administration
• Computerized Scoring and Tracking
• Cost Effective
• Research-Based and Kid Centered
To Recap:
• easyCBM is a valuable assessment tool for: – Benchmarking (universal assessment) – Progress Monitoring (intervention effectiveness)
• easyCBM provides documentation of ongoing
intervention plans, goals, and student response to intervention.
• Information derived from easyCBM assessments can inform instructional decision-making at all levels: district, school, classroom, and student.
