INSIGHT GUIDE 1

Utilize InSight as a Screener and Benchmark Assessment

Screen with InSightUse InSight as a screener to identify students who would benefit from Reading Plus instruction. Follow these guidelines to use InSight as a screener with a large body of students before they are enrolled in Reading Plus classes.

Ensure all Students Targeted for Insight Assessment Appear on Student Roster

• Select the Students tab• View names on Student Roster• If you must add a student who

does not appear on the Student Roster, press +Create

Note: If many students do not appear on your Student Roster, visit www.readingplus.com/imports for instructions about preparing your file for import.

Print Students’ Usernames and Passwords

• Select the Reports tab• From the drop-down menu,

select Student Usernames and Passwords Report

• Press Print

Students begin working in Reading Plus with an integrated assessment called InSight. InSight is a computer-adaptive assessment, created under the direction and guidance of leading reading researchers. InSight provides data to identify individual students’ instructional needs. InSight measures students' comprehension level, vocabulary knowledge, comprehension-based silent reading rate, and motivation for reading. The initial administration of InSight serves as a screener as well as the Reading Plus placement test. Administrators and teachers can also administer the InSight assessment up to two additional times throughout the year as a benchmark to measure student progress over time.

INSIGHT GUIDE 2

Prepare Staff to Administer InSight

InSight Assessment

Screener

Benchmark

Placement

Instructional Programs

Provide students with their Reading Plus usernames and passwords. To take InSight, students log in to login.readingplus.com.

Tell students how long the assessment will take—most students complete the assessment within 30 minutes. The assessment can be completed in two or more sittings.

Inform students that the assessment is divided into three parts.

Remind students to put on headphones before viewing the instructional movie for each part.

Ask students to have a book or other quiet activity nearby in case they complete the assessment before classmates.

If students move too quickly or very slowly through the assessment, cautionary messages will be displayed on the student’s screen. Messages remind students to stay focused and do their best work.

• Select the Reports tab• From the Site Reports tab, select

the Screening Report from drop-down menu

• Use the scroll bar or press Print to view the complete report

Review Data After Assessment

INSIGHT GUIDE 3

Take Inventory of Your StudentsThe Site Screening Report shows you which students can benefit from Reading Plus as an intervention, which students are proficient but can use Reading Plus for enrichment, and which students are either borderline or not ready for fluency development in the Reading (SeeReader) component.

Aug 29, 2016 3:51 PM

Mikaila Williams

Macon Gaines Middle School

Site Screening Report All Completed Weeks

COMPREHENSION & VOCABULARY (Capacity Index)

Q4

Q3

Q2

Q1

LOWER COMP/VOCABHIGHER FLUENCY

HIGHER COMP/VOCABHIGHER FLUENCY

LOWER COMP/VOCABLOWER FLUENCY

HIGHER COMP/VOCABLOWER FLUENCY

-8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 GRADELEVEL

1 2 3 4

FLU

ENC

Y (S

ilent

Rea

ding

Rat

e by

Qua

rtile

)

Higher Comp/VocabHigher Fluency

Higher Comp/VocabLower Fluency

Lower Comp/VocabHigher Fluency

Lower Comp/VocabLower Fluency

Borderline

Not Ready

Enrichment

Fluency/Efficiency Development

Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Fluency/EfficiencyDevelopment

Intensive Comprehension and VocabularyDevelopment; Student May Need Teacher Support

Visual-Perceptual Skill Development and VocabDevelopment; Student May Need FoundationalSkill Development and/or Extra Teacher Support

2 (2%)

19 (15%)

14 (11%)

65 (52%)

18 (15%)

6 (5%)

Diagnostic Profile Primary Instructional FocusNumber of

Students (%)

Use the color-coded symbols to identify students who are either Not Ready or Borderline for the Reading component (SeeReader).

Not Ready: Student did not demonstrate mastery of first-grade-level reading passages and first-grade-level academic vocabulary during the InSight assessment. A Not Ready student who is known to have foundational reading skills such as phonics and decoding may not have put forth best effort during assessment.

Borderline: Student is marginally ready to earn 80%+ on the Reading lessons. Borderline students:

• are likely to benefit from comprehension development and stamina-building in the Reading program.

• should be encouraged to complete Reading (SR) lessons and monitored for comprehension improvement.

• typically begin earning comprehension scores of 80%+ after completing approximately 20 lessons.

Students in the orange, yellow, and red quadrants are likely to benefit from Reading Plus as an intervention:

Red quadrant students read at an inefficient rate and their comprehension and vocabulary skills are below grade level

Orange quadrant students are efficient readers, but only when reading below-grade-level content.

Yellow quadrant students can comprehend content at or above grade level, but they are slow, inefficient readers.

Green quadrant students are already proficient and can benefit from Reading Plus as enrichment.

Note the diagnostic profile and the primary instructional focus in Reading Plus for students in each of the scatterplot quadrants above. View the number and percentage of students appearing in each quadrant.

INSIGHT GUIDE 4

Benchmark Progress with InSightAfter the first administration, InSight can be administered as an optional assessment to benchmark progress up to two additional times per year (mid-year and end-of-year, for example). Teachers can reassign the InSight assessment to students in Reading Plus classes. Administrators can reassign InSight as an assessment to benchmark all students' progress, including students not enrolled in Reading Plus classes.

Follow these guidelines to utilize InSight as an assessment to benchmark the progress of students enrolled in Reading Plus classes.

Assign Mid-Year and End-of-Year InSight Assessment• From your Administrator

Dashboard, select Site settings tab

• Press InSight Settings• Check the box next to Assign

InSight Assessment• Select the option to assign mid-

term (benchmark 2) or end-of-year (benchmark 3) assessment.

• Press Save

Administer InSight• Follow previous instructions for

administering InSight (page 2)

Review Data After Assessment• Select the Reports tab• From the Site Reports tab,

select Benchmark Report from dropdown menu

• Use the scroll bar or press Print to view the complete report

INSIGHT GUIDE 5

Class Benchmark Report

Ms. Mora P3Macon Gaines Middle School

Ms. Mora P3

0% (0)

11% (2)

6% (1)

11% (2)

28% (5)

44% (8)

Benchmark 1(9/3/13-9/17/13)

28% (5)

6% (1)

17% (3)

22% (4)

11% (2)

17% (3)

18 Students

Avg

4.2

4.5

5.4

118

0%

11%

17%

0%

5.3

5.8

6.1

135

17%

28%

22%

11%

+1.1

+1.3

+0.7

+17

% at Grade Avg % at Grade Gain

18 Students(45.4 hrs)

94% of Studentsmade gains

83% of Studentsmade gains

6%

17%22%

17%

6%11%

28%

44%

17% (3)

3% (2)

7% (1)

17% (2)

31% (5)

41% (5)

Benchmark 2(12/9/13-12/10/13)

18 Students(22.9 hrs)

17%

11%

6%11%28%

28%

Benchmark 3(4/21/14-4/22/14)

At or Above Grade

Below 1

Below 2

Below 3

Below 4

Below 5

PROFICIENCY INDEX (Capacity and Efficiency)

11%

Proficiency Level

Very High

High

Neutral

Low

Very Low

Legend

Extrinsic

Self-Efficacy

Interest

Value

Benchmark 1 Benchmark 2 Benchmark 3

17%28%

MOTIVATION

Proficiency Level

Comprehension Level

Vocabulary Level

Reading Rate

6.7

7.8

7.0

145

28%

39%

28%

11%

+2.5

+3.3

+1.6

+27

Avg % at Grade Gain

Analyze GrowthUse the Site Benchmark Report to analyze student growth over time. This report displays the percentage of students above, at, or below grade level in overall proficiency, the percentage of students at or above grade level in comprehension, vocabulary, reading rate, and student scores on a scale of very low to very high within four domains of motivation. This information is displayed for each administration of InSight.

Please note that students should complete a minimum of 40 Reading (SeeReader) lessons before educators administer InSight as a benchmark assessment.

Proficiency Index is a composite of reading comprehension level, vocabulary level, and silent reading rate.

Note percentages of students demonstrating grade-level or above-grade-level capacity in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and silent reading rate on each benchmark administration.

View the percentage of students above, at or below grade level in overall proficiency on each benchmark administration.

• % of students at or above grade level

• % of students one level below grade level

View student growth over time in four motivation domains.

Press here to access individual student data on the Site Benchmark Comparison Report. See the following page for details.

Analyze Growth (continued)Use the Site Benchmark Comparison Report to analyze individual student growth over time based on InSight assessment results. This report displays student-level data for each administration of InSight.

Mikalia WilliamsMacon Gaines Middle SchoolMay 31, 2014

Site Benchmark Comparison Report All Completed Weeks

Student SR Total

Pulley P1

Garcia P2

Wilcox P3

Pulley P1

Garcia P4

Pulley P1

Wilcox P3

Garcia P4

Pulley P1

Garcia P4

Wilcox P3

Wilcox P3

Garcia P4

Garcia P4

Garcia P2

Pulley P1

Garcia P4

Garcia P4

Pulley P1

Garcia P1

Garcia P1

Wilcox P3

Garcia P1

Pulley P1

Pulley P1

Wilcox P3

B1 Prof L B3 Prof L Gain

Chung, Dai

Maltos, Felix

Burns, William

Ine, Eiko

Kan, Masana

Nicholson, Angelo

Sahaku, Honoo

Moreau, Aubrey

Gomez, Gordon

Sarraf, Zakiy

Hill, Alicia

Anaya, Macy

Wark, Taj

Hsiao, Jie

Furuya, Nishi

Higgins, Amy

Karlsen, Mark

Kjaer, Rosa

Hernandez, Ilana

Baumgart, Cindy

Howser, Cole

O’Brien Walter

Holtz, Carol

Petros, Milen

Saitou, Tokie

Wood, Noah

Class Grade SR Inter

7

6

7

7

6

7

7

6

7

6

7

7

6

6

6

7

6

6

7

7

7

7

7

6

6

7

2.9

5.3

4.3

5.3

4.0

2.5

5.4

5.8

6.1

4.5

4.0

4.7

3.9

5.3

4.7

4.9

3.1

5.4

4.7

4.3

4.4

7.9

4.4

2.6

4.5

3.4

5.5

6.0

4.7

6.3

7.4

3.9

7.6

8.7

7.8

8.2

7.8

4.9

5.9

6.4

7.3

6.3

7.5

8.7

5.3

6.7

6.2

5.5

4.7

4.7

5.2

6.2

2.6

0.7

0.4

1.0

3.4

1.4

2.2

2.9

1.7

3.7

3.8

0.2

2.0

1.1

2.6

1.4

4.4

3.3

0.6

2.4

1.8

-2.4

.03

2.1

0.7

2.8

125

72

128

111

130

125

137

115

177

90

109

145

128

90

189

96

120

108

102

133

110

117

155

84

101

75

121

72

120

109

127

121

131

108

169

85

98

137

122

89

184

94

115

103

98

125

103

111

149

77

96

73

Garcia P2

Garcia P2

Garcia P2

Garcia P2

Pulley P1

Garcia P2

Pulley P1

Pulley P1

Garcia P1

Garcia P1

Garcia P2

Joshi, Saniya

Keita, Tuma

Hillman, Lanora

Nerio, Isabel

Sanabria, Dario

Bora, Aja

Caro, Naseeba

Menz, Dwight

Ganim, Sumaira

Connelly, Ella

Toure, Ebele

59 Students

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

7

7

6

5.0

3.6

6.2

5.3

4.5

2.7

4.8

7.0

1.4

4.4

8.7

4.5

5.5

5.6

6.7

8.0

5.1

4.3

5.9

10.3

2.8

5.6

10.0

6.4

.05

2.0

0.5

2.7

0.6

1.6

1.1

3.3

1.4

1.2

1.3

1.9

52

55

48

83

54

48

23

42

24

37

32

106.2

48

49

42

74

48

41

17

36

16

30

22

100.3

View the total number of Reading lessons completed between initial assessment (B1) and subsequent benchmark assessment (B2 or B3).

View the overall proficiency level gain between assessments.

Press a student name to access the Student Assessment Report.

Press a class name to access the Class Benchmark Report.

Compare the proficiency level (Prof L) at initial InSight assessment (B1) with the level at subsequent benchmark assessment (B2 or B3). Proficiency level is a composite measure comprised of reading comprehension level, vocabulary level, and silent reading rate.

View the total number of Reading lessons completed over the course of the implementation.

View site averages for total Reading lessons completed, lessons completed between assessments, proficiency levels at initial and subsequent assessment, and total level gain.

Proficiency Level Color Key

At or above grade level

1 level below grade level

2 levels below grade level

3 levels below grade level

4 levels below grade level

5 levels below grade level

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