1. Curriculum Based Measurement Module 4 – I Have Writing Fluency CBM Data – Now What?

2. Curriculum Based Measures Emphasize repeated measurement over time Provide rate of progress Provide level of performance Are efficient to administer Are effective to summarize Help with instructional planning

3. What kind of decisions can you make with CBM data? Screening Decisions: who needs additional help and who doesn’t? Progress Monitoring Decisions: when do you move on to new goals or modify instruction? Outcome Decisions: document overall effectiveness of efforts across all students (health of the core); determine when additional support is needed or no longer needed.

4. What kind of decisions can you make with CBM data? Diagnostic Decisions: what kind of help does a student need? (refer to chart – “Using Problem Solving to Address Writing Problems”)

5. So…Let’s practice using some sample data. What questions does this data generate? What other data sources may be needed in order to make informed decisions for individual students? For instruction? When do we look at this data? How often? Why is it important to look at multiple sources of writing data together?

6. Questions?