Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is CBM and Why Should I Do It? -- 2. CBM for Assessment and Problem Solving -- 3. How to Conduct Early Reading CBM -- 4. How to Conduct Reading CBM -- 5. How to Conduct Spelling CBM -- 6. How to Conduct Writing CBM -- 7. How to Conduct Early Numeracy CBM -- 8. How to Conduct Math CBM -- 9. How to Conduct Content-Area CBM -- 10. Charting and Graphing Data to Help Make Decisions -- 11. Planning to Use CBM--and Keeping It Going -- Appendix A. Norms for Early Reading CBM, OPR CBM, and Maze CBM -- Appendix B. Reproducible Quick Guides and Forms for Conducting CBM -- References -- Index
Developed specifically to overcome problems with traditional standardized instruments, curriculum-based measurement (CBM) has steadily increased in educational use. These brief assessment probes of reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics serve to quantify student performance as well as to enhance academic achievement. Their widening use as a means of evaluation and ultimately of instruction, has created a corresponding need to expand the applications of this methodology to diverse populations. This new volume addresses that need by focusing on the broader application of CBM, providing practical new measures, as well as detailing their use with specific student groups.
This reference guide provides an overview of the purposes and uses of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), a standardized approach to assessing student performance in order to inform educational and instructional decision making. This guide is designed for teachers, administrators, and other educators who are considering using CBM, want an introduction to CBM, or need a quick and easy reference. It is also useful for educators to use with parents and students as an introduction to CBM. Written by two of the authors of the national bestseller, The ABCs of CBM: A Practical Guide to Curriculum-Based Measurement.
Accessibly written and featuring illustrative case examples, this book provides a complete guide to curriculum-based assessment for instructional design (CBA-ID). CBA-ID comprises easy-to-implement, reliable, and valid procedures for determining a student's instructional level and individualizing instruction by developing tasks that are neither too hard nor too easy. It is a key tool for supporting K-8 students who are struggling in reading, math, or writing, and is ideally suited for intervention planning within multi-tiered systems of support. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible forms. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
This textbook provides in-depth instruction for conducting psychoeducational assessments of children in grades K-12 and conveying results through detailed, well-written reports. It takes readers step by step through the assessment process – collecting data, writing reports, and communicating conclusions – for students with conditions spanning the range of IDEA classifications such as autism, learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, and conditions covered by Section 504. The book offers not only a broad understanding of assessment and communication skills, but also of the ethical, legal, cultural, and professional considerations that come with psychoeducational evaluation. And its sample reports model clear, well-organized results accessible to parents and caregivers as well as teachers and colleagues. Key areas of coverage include: • Assessment basics: the testing environment and protocols, interviewing, and observation. • Report writing section by section, from reason for referral to summary and recommendations. • Guidelines for oral reporting, with case examples. • Special issues in psychoeducational assessment and report writing. • Sample psychoeducational reports using this framework. Psychoeducational Assessment and Report Writing is an essential text for graduate students, researchers, professors, and professionals in child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; social work; and psychological methods/evaluation.
A focus on what teachers can do, not on what special learners can't... This easy-to-understand book examines teacher-made tests and curricula as they relate to a child's success or failure. To break through the inertia of common practice in the classroom, the authors integrate the basic concepts of evaluation and instructions with the best current knowledge to generate productive classroom tools.Using a step-by-step approach, the authors show you: how to use the curriculum to meet the child's needs, how to assess in an ongoing way, andhow to recognize when instructional change is warranted.
"[Book title] adopts a preventive--or responsive--stance on RTI, offering a critical analysis of problematic current practices along with clear examples and logic for more appropriate practices. By focusing on quality instructional practices instead of measurement identification, you will learn how your school can truly capitalize on the promise of RTI in literacy."--Back cover.
Part 1: Foundational concepts in assessment in special education. Introduction to Assessment ; Methods of Assessment and Testing Considerations ; Basic Statistical Concepts ; Validity and Reliability ; Scoring Terminology Used in Assessment. -- Part 2: The special education process. Response to Intervention ; The Child Study Team and Prereferral Strategies ;The Multidisciplinary Team and Parental Participation in the Assessment Process ;Assessment of Academic Achievement ; Assessment of Intelligence ; Assessment of Behavior ; Assessment of Perceptual Processing ; Assessment of Speech and Language ; Early Childhood Assessment ; Other Areas of Assessment ; Determining Whether a Disability Exists ; Writing a Comprehensive Report in Special Education ; Eligibility Procedures for Special Education Services ; Development of the IEP.
Designed to work with any curriculum, Cognition-Based Assessment and Teaching will enable you to better understand and respond to your students' learning needs and help you choose instructional activities that are best for them. Michael Battista offers a learning-progressions model for maximizing each student's progress&— helping students who are behind catch up, preventing future failures from occurring, and helping students who are ready move quickly ahead. Cognition-Based Assessment and Teaching will help you will all three tiers in RTI. Battista's approach emphasizes three key components that support students' mathematical sense making and proficiency: Determining students' levels of sophistication in reasoning Assessing and monitoring the development of students' understanding of core ideas Differentiating instruction to meet individual students' learning needs Using a research-based framework that describes the development of students' thinking and learning in terms of levels of sophistication, a “cognitive terrain” that includes ascents and plateaus, Battista shows how teachers can build on their students' reasoning with instruction that keeps them moving ever upwards.--Publisher.
