Fairfield (CT) Schools: How to Use CBMs in Secondary Classrooms to Assess and Measure Progress on Student Basic Academic Skills

 On 3 December 2013, Jim Wright presented a workshop, How to Use CBMs in Secondary Classrooms to Assess and Measure Progress on Student Basic Academic Skills, for midde and high school special educators from Fairfield Schools in Connecticut.  Here are resources from the training: 

• PowerPoint from Workshop: How to Use CBMs in Secondary Classrooms to Assess and Measure Progress on Student Basic Academic Skills in PDF Format
  
• Handout 1::Initial Session
• Handou 2: Initial Session
  
• Handout 1: Follow-Up Session
• Handout 2: Follow-Up Session

• CBM Oral Reading Fluency: Data-Recording Form

• Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.

Here are resources for charting student CBM (or other) data:

• Charting Student Data: Excel Spreadsheet
• Charting Student Data: Example Spreadsheet
• ChartDog Free Online Charting Program
• ChartDog Manual

These interventions were mentioned at the workshop:

• Group-Based Repeated Reading
• Ask-Read-Tell Reading Comprehension Cognitive Strategy

Here are interactive tools to create other types of assessments in addition to CBM:

• Behavior Report Cards: Behavior Report Card Maker
• Checklists for General Classroom Behavior: Self-Monitoring Checklist Maker
• Checklists for Academic Survival Skill: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker

These CBM websites have free materials::

• DIBELS Next (requires free account to access materials)
• EasyCBM.com (requires free account to access materials)
• EasyCBM Norms
• Superkids.com math worksheets (use this site to create math computation fluency worksheets)