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Bartlett Schools Universal Screening and

Progress Monitoring

•What is CBM?•Benchmark & Progress Monitoring Assessments•Reading & Math

•Grades K-8•Common Core

•Computer Administration•Multi-Level Reporting

• Student• Class/group• Building• District

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History of

• University of Oregon, College of Education

• Behavioral Research & Teaching (BRT)–Different group than DIBELS

• 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

http://brtprojects.org/

easyCBM Versions

Complete Version

• Benchmark assessments• Full suite of progress monitoring

assessments• Reading & Math – Grades K-8• New Content: Vocabulary and

Common Core• Audio for math K-8 for struggling

readers• System-level use• Team access• Computer Administration• Multi Level Reporting • Goal Lines for individual reports• $4 per student per year – unlimited

access

easyCBM Lite

• Limited Progress monitoring assessments

• Reading & Math – Grades K-8• Individual teacher use• Individual Reporting

Benefits• Multi-level Reporting

– Individual and Group–Intervention Planning–Risk Analysis

• Simple and Flexible Administration – online or paper/pencil

• Computerized Scoring and Tracking – record fluency measures via i-Pad

• Research-Based and Kid Centered

Curriculum Based MeasurementeasyCBM™ contains two types of assessments:

BenchmarksUniversal assessments administered at regular intervals to students in key achievement areas. Testing Window set by District (Fall, Winter, Spring) – by grade level

Progress MonitoringBrief assessments administered to individuals or small groups of students receiving support to determine response to instruction/intervention – by instructional level

Assessments Designed for Core Curriculum and RTI

• Reading– Early Literacy, Grades K-2

• Phoneme Segmenting, Letter Names, Letter Sounds

– Fluency, Grades K-3• Word Reading Fluency,

Passage Reading Fluency

– Comprehension, Grades 2-8• CCSS Reading (Read to

Perform Task / Informational Text / Short Literary Text)

• MCRC Comprehension

– Vocabulary, Grades 2-8

• Mathematics (Gr. K-8)– NCTM Focal Point Standards– CCSS Math

• Spanish (Gr. K-2)

easyCBM contains

between 10-17 different

measures for each of these

content areas!

Reading Measures

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Administration Time

On-Line Scoring

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Spanish Curriculum Based Measures

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Math Measures

Administration Time

Read-Aloud feature for online math measures

supports struggling readers!

Training Page

Each measure type has an online training section and corresponding proficiency exam

Training Page

Training sections for individually-administered measures include video clips

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Test Security

This option allows the District to limit access to the online tests to school hours

District Reports: Benchmark School Comparison

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Building Level Reports – by Class Groups

Benchmark Risk Rating ReportClass list can be sorted by any of the column headers, providing quick identification of overall risk rating as well as patterns of strengths and weaknesses

Suggested Progress Monitoring path provided to help teachers quickly make decisions

Group Report: provides information helpful for grouping students.

Instructionally speaking,

are they ‘in the same

neighborhood’?

Group Report: provides insight

into the item types on which students need more work.

MCRC Reading Item Analysis Example

Group Report

Group Report: provides insight

into the item types on which students need more work.

CCSS Reading Item Analysis Example

Individual Student Report

This report Provides information helpful for judging the effectiveness of interventions for a particular student.

Goals and Aimlines

A blue aimline is drawn from the mid-point of the first 3 tests to the goal plotted on the graph. The black trendline is also shown.

Documenting Intervention Plans within the easyCBM system

Allows teachers to create a description of the intervention that outlines the instructional materials, group size, frequency of intervention, session length, progress monitoring tool, and frequency of assessment.