EasyCBM: Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring System

1. easyCBM:Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring System

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16. When you type in the URL, you are taken to the sign in page. Here, you can see that students would access the online tests by clicking on the student portal, while staff access the data and all the measures through the Teacher portal.When you type in the URL, you are taken to the sign in page. Here, you can see that students would access the online tests by clicking on the student portal, while staff access the data and all the measures through the Teacher portal.

17. Once you type in your User Name and Password, you will see this screen. Here, you can see the different tabs in the site: Home, which is where we are right now, a Students tab, which shows you the student rosters the district has listed for you, a Measures tab, which is where you will enter benchmark scores and access and activate the progress monitoring measures, a Reports tab, which is where you will go to see how students are doing on their assessments, and an Account tab where you can edit your own account information. There�s also a link to a section where testers can learn how to administer and score the measures. We�re going to start with the Students tab, then move our way through the rest. Once you type in your User Name and Password, you will see this screen. Here, you can see the different tabs in the site: Home, which is where we are right now, a Students tab, which shows you the student rosters the district has listed for you, a Measures tab, which is where you will enter benchmark scores and access and activate the progress monitoring measures, a Reports tab, which is where you will go to see how students are doing on their assessments, and an Account tab where you can edit your own account information. There�s also a link to a section where testers can learn how to administer and score the measures. We�re going to start with the Students tab, then move our way through the rest.

18. Here, we are viewing the site from an individual teacher�s perspective. People who have been assigned this level of access see only those students who are specifically assigned to them. Students CAN appear in multiple teachers� lists � the District IT admin responsible for keeping the student / staff lists current can add a student to your class list if that student is assigned to you for all or part of his/her day. (NOTE: in presenting this slide, feel free to substitute the District IT person�s name so people know whom to contact). You�ll see that the system gives you the opportunity to organize your students into Groups. This feature allows you to sort your students into smaller clusters based on what time of day you see them (AM/PM, for instance, or period 1, period 2, period 3, etc.), the particular tier of instruction they are receiving (Tier 2, Tier 3, etc.), or perhaps their instructional group designation. When you organize your students into groups, it helps keep the list of names students have to search through when they are taking a test to a reasonable length. It also helps if you are assigning different measures to different students (for example, let�s say you are a 4th grade teacher. You may want to assign a Grade 2 comprehension test rather than a Grade 4 test to two of your students who are really struggling and are currently reading at a Grade 2 level. By organizing these two students into their own group, you can �assign� the Grade 2 tests to them while assigning a Grade 4 test to other students in your class. When the students log on to the system in the computer lab, they will only see the tests that you have assigned to their particular group. If a student is associated with more than one staff person, that student�s assessment data will appear in all their teachers� files each time he or she takes a test. When a teacher adds an intervention line for a particular student, all staff associated with that student are able to see what the intervention is. This can be a really helpful way of making sure everyone knows what to focus on with a particular student. The system also allows individual teachers to update their rosters and hand-enter a new student on the day of an assessment if the central office has not yet had the opportunity to update the rosters on the system as a whole. Please note that this feature should be used sparingly, as it does create additional work for the IT admin who then has to reconcile the files and exchange the temporary ID the system automatically assigns to students who have been hand-entered by the teachers for their permanent ID in the district data warehouse system. At this point, we�re going to Here, we are viewing the site from an individual teacher�s perspective. People who have been assigned this level of access see only those students who are specifically assigned to them. Students CAN appear in multiple teachers� lists � the District IT admin responsible for keeping the student / staff lists current can add a student to your class list if that student is assigned to you for all or part of his/her day. (NOTE: in presenting this slide, feel free to substitute the District IT person�s name so people know whom to contact). You�ll see that the system gives you the opportunity to organize your students into Groups. This feature allows you to sort your students into smaller clusters based on what time of day you see them (AM/PM, for instance, or period 1, period 2, period 3, etc.), the particular tier of instruction they are receiving (Tier 2, Tier 3, etc.), or perhaps their instructional group designation. When you organize your students into groups, it helps keep the list of names students have to search through when they are taking a test to a reasonable length. It also helps if you are assigning different measures to different students (for example, let�s say you are a 4th grade teacher. You may want to assign a Grade 2 comprehension test rather than a Grade 4 test to two of your students who are really struggling and are currently reading at a Grade 2 level. By organizing these two students into their own group, you can �assign� the Grade 2 tests to them while assigning a Grade 4 test to other students in your class. When the students log on to the system in the computer lab, they will only see the tests that you have assigned to their particular group. If a student is associated with more than one staff person, that student�s assessment data will appear in all their teachers� files each time he or she takes a test. When a teacher adds an intervention line for a particular student, all staff associated with that student are able to see what the intervention is. This can be a really helpful way of making sure everyone knows what to focus on with a particular student. The system also allows individual teachers to update their rosters and hand-enter a new student on the day of an assessment if the central office has not yet had the opportunity to update the rosters on the system as a whole. Please note that this feature should be used sparingly, as it does create additional work for the IT admin who then has to reconcile the files and exchange the temporary ID the system automatically assigns to students who have been hand-entered by the teachers for their permanent ID in the district data warehouse system. At this point, we�re going to

19. Now, let�s move to a more interesting section of the website: the Measures tab. When you click on this tab, you will see a list of the Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring assessments available on the system. Notice the Benchmark button at the top of the screen. When a Benchmark Testing Window is active, the Benchmarks button is automatically selected. Now, let�s move to a more interesting section of the website: the Measures tab. When you click on this tab, you will see a list of the Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring assessments available on the system. Notice the Benchmark button at the top of the screen. When a Benchmark Testing Window is active, the Benchmarks button is automatically selected.

20. Once the testing window has closed, the system switches to the Progress Monitoring measures as the default setting. It is always possible to click back and forth between the two. As you can see, we are looking at the measures available in Grade 5, Reading. If I were to scroll further down the page, I would see the full list of comprehension tests, then the math measures.Once the testing window has closed, the system switches to the Progress Monitoring measures as the default setting. It is always possible to click back and forth between the two. As you can see, we are looking at the measures available in Grade 5, Reading. If I were to scroll further down the page, I would see the full list of comprehension tests, then the math measures.

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22. In this case, I have accessed the data as a person with District Level Access. If I select a School, but not a Teacher, then I get a list of all students at that school in the grade I�ve selected. Here, for example, we�re looking at the Winter Benchmark school-wide report for Kindergarten students. In this particular example, the green highlighting of the score indicates a student who scored at or above the 90th percentile on that measure. The yellow highlighting indicates a student who scored between the 11th and 20th percentile, and the red highlighting indicates a student who scored at or below the 10th percentile. These lists can be sorted by clicking on the column header, so you can sort by score on any of the measures, as well as by total z-score (standard score) averaged across all three measures, or by percentile rank. In this case, I have accessed the data as a person with District Level Access. If I select a School, but not a Teacher, then I get a list of all students at that school in the grade I�ve selected. Here, for example, we�re looking at the Winter Benchmark school-wide report for Kindergarten students. In this particular example, the green highlighting of the score indicates a student who scored at or above the 90th percentile on that measure. The yellow highlighting indicates a student who scored between the 11th and 20th percentile, and the red highlighting indicates a student who scored at or below the 10th percentile. These lists can be sorted by clicking on the column header, so you can sort by score on any of the measures, as well as by total z-score (standard score) averaged across all three measures, or by percentile rank.

23. Once student data are in the system, teachers can access a variety of reports using the Reports tab. Here, we are seeing a screenshot of the Groups tab being selected. When I select the �Main Group� option, in this case, a group with 33 students, the next screen appears, where I will be able to see average scores, etc.Once student data are in the system, teachers can access a variety of reports using the Reports tab. Here, we are seeing a screenshot of the Groups tab being selected. When I select the �Main Group� option, in this case, a group with 33 students, the next screen appears, where I will be able to see average scores, etc.

25. Passage Reading Fluency On this screen, I�ve added the blue arrows to indicate which of the scores are the Benchmark assessments. All others are progress monitoring measures. You should also note the key at the bottom of the graph that shows the color coding for the lines; this is the same as the color coding on the class list from the benchmark reports tab. The vertical lines (�Triumphs� and �Double Dose�) indicate interventions. At the bottom of the graph, you�ll see a brief description of what each of those interventions includes. Teachers enter this information through the �Interventions� tab, and it becomes a rich source of data to use in grade-level meetings, parent conferences, and professional development sessions with teachers at the school. Many schools print these reports and include them in their annual IEP reports as well. On this screen, I�ve added the blue arrows to indicate which of the scores are the Benchmark assessments. All others are progress monitoring measures. You should also note the key at the bottom of the graph that shows the color coding for the lines; this is the same as the color coding on the class list from the benchmark reports tab. The vertical lines (�Triumphs� and �Double Dose�) indicate interventions. At the bottom of the graph, you�ll see a brief description of what each of those interventions includes. Teachers enter this information through the �Interventions� tab, and it becomes a rich source of data to use in grade-level meetings, parent conferences, and professional development sessions with teachers at the school. Many schools print these reports and include them in their annual IEP reports as well.