1. easyCBM: Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring System

2. Assessments to Facilitate Instruction What does it take for a seamless integration of a benchmarking and progress monitoring system? Assess the right things Scale the measures for sensitivity and reliability Make it easy for schools to use Get teacher buy in Align with important criterion measures

4. Assess the Right Things: Reading Measures Early Literacy Phonemic Segmentation LN, LS WRF, PRF Gr. 2Gr. 3-8 Literal6 items 7 items Comprehension Inferential 6 items 7 items Evaluative 6 items

5. Assess the Right Things: Math Measures NCTM Focal Point Standards 3 Focal Points per grade; each PM measure has 16 items aligned to a single Focal Point. Each Benchmark measure has 48 items (16 from each Focal Point).

9. School Use Benchmark data need to guide decision-making. In many districts using an RTI framework, all students get Tier 1 and 2; those scoring below a particular percentile on the benchmark and/or non-responders get Tier 3 instruction. Instructional Decisions: who, what, when, how, where, how often, with whom?

12. Teacher Buy-In Teachers need to input intervention info & modify instruction based on findings. Selection of appropriate measure for the individual student – Current skill level – Specific deficits – Sensitivity to growth – Aligned to intervention

14. Benchmark & PM Data

15. Passage Reading Fluency

17. MCRC: Benchmark Only

18. Aligned to Other Criterion Measures Upcoming studies: criterion-validity studies examining relationship between benchmark measures and state tests in reading and math. Free site already open for use: http://easycbm.comhttp://easycbm.com District site will be available for use starting in September, 2009. For more information: contact jalonzo@uoregon.edujalonzo@uoregon.edu