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| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Developmental Reading Assessment Joetta Beaver, Mark A. Carter, 2003 Gives middle school teachers a range of tools to help monitor literacy behavior continuously as they teach, as well as conduct periodic assessments for accountability. Intended to guide teachers' ongoing observations of student's progress within a literature-based reading program. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: RTI Toolkit Jim Wright, 2007 This book will provide school administrators and teachers with the essential techniques, resources, and guidelines to start a comprehensive “Response To Intervention” process in their own schools. The reader will learn how to: · Help stakeholders “buy-in” to the RTI process · Inventory and organize intervention resources · Create research-based and classroom-friendly student intervention plans · Set objective goals for student improvement · Apply decision rules to determine when a student who fails to respond to intervention should be referred |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Assessing Reading Multiple Measures - Revised 2nd Edition Linda Diamond, B. J. Thorsnes, 2018 A collection of formal and informal English and Spanish reading assessments for students in grades K-12. Includes assessment instructions, assessments and teacher scoring forms. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Leveled Books (K-8) Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2006 For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Math Running Records in Action Nicki Newton, 2016-06-17 In this new book from popular consultant and bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton, you’ll discover how to use Math Running Records to assess students’ basic fact fluency and increase student achievement. Like a GPS, Math Running Records pinpoint exactly where students are in their understanding of basic math facts and then outline the next steps toward comprehensive fluency. This practical book introduces a research-based framework to assess students’ thinking and move them toward becoming confident, proficient, flexible mathematicians with a robust sense of numbers. Topics include: Learning how often to administer Math Running Records and how to strategically introduce them into your existing curriculum; Analyzing, and interpreting Math Running Records for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; Using the data gathered from Math Running Records to implement evidence-based, research-driven instruction. Evaluating students’ speed, accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency to help them attain computational fluency; Each chapter offers a variety of charts and tools that you can use in the classroom immediately, and the strategies can easily be adapted for students at all levels of math fluency across grades K-8. Videos of sample running records are also available for download at https://guidedmath.wordpress.com/math-running-records-videos. Blackline masters are available on the Running Records Dropbox at https://bit.ly/3gnggIq |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Guided Reading Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2017 Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential. Now with Guided Reading, Second Edition, (re)discover the essential elements of guided reading through: a wider and more comprehensive look at its place within a coherent literacy system a refined and deeper understanding of its complexity an examination of the steps in implementation-from observing and assessing literacy behaviors, to grouping in a thoughtful and dynamic way, to analyzing texts, to teaching the lesson the teaching for systems of strategic actions a rich text base that can support and extend student learning the re-emerging role of shared reading as a way to lead guided and independent reading forward the development of managed independent learning across the grades an in-depth exploration of responsive teaching the role of facilitative language in supporting change over time in students' processing systems the identification of high-priority shifts in learning to focus on at each text level the creation of a learning environment within which literacy and language can flourish. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply their reading power to all literacy contexts. Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Introducing Texts Effectively in Guided Reading Lessons |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Curriculum-based Measurement Mark R. Shinn, 1989-03-17 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. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 1 Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2007 |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Orange (Grade K) Program Guide Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2009-08-05 Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The Next Step in Guided Reading Jan Richardson, 2009 Teachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process. Each chapter contains planning sheets to help teachers analyze assessments in order to group students and select a teaching focus Includes detailed, ready-to-go lesson plans for all stages of reading: emergent, early, transitional, and fluent |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2016 There has never been a more comprehensive resource available to teachers that does what the continuum does - provide specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text. More in-depth, more intuitive, and more essential than ever-The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition enables teachers to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves. The Literacy Continuum provides a way to look for specific evidence of learning from prekindergarten through grade eight, and across eight instructional contexts. Each instructional context contributes substantially, in different but complementary ways, to students' development of the literacy process. With this indispensable literacy tool, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of The Literacy Continuum's critical role in transforming literacy teaching and learning. (Re)Discover The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition to: elevate your language and literacy expertise develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers build your understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time hone your observation of students' literacy behaviors teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision build professional learning opportunities with colleagues create a common vision and common language for literacy in your school. Look for these new enhancements inside: Streamlined organization and navigation Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua First appearance of a behavior or goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red square (Behaviors are acquired and then elaborated over time) Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions Four-color design for clarity and focus Also check out our on-demand mini-course: Thinking and Talking About Books Across the Day. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Reading Assessment in an RTI Framework Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, Michael C. McKenna, 2012-10-09 From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal, and curriculum-based measures to assess key components of reading development and make informed choices about instruction. The book describes how to survey existing assessment practices in a school and craft a systematic plan for improvement; reproducible tools include a 10-page RTI Assessment Audit that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size. See also Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition, which explains the fundamentals of assessment and provides essential hands-on tools. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Differentiated Reading Instruction Sharon Walpole, Michael C. McKenna, 2007-01-24 This book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups and monitor student progress; plan which skills to target and when; and implement carefully selected instructional strategies. Vivid classroom examples illustrate what differentiated instruction looks like in action in each of the primary grades. For additional helpful resources, including classroom-ready lesson plans, teachers can purchase the complementary volume, How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction: Resources for Grades K-3. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Montessori Assessment Playbook National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector, 2019-04-29 Can we measure what we treasure? Can we build and sustain truly excellent schools focused on the ambitious goal of human flourishing? And can we hold ourselves accountable to the children and families we serve in ways that harness data to advance that goal? The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector says “yes”! The Montessori Assessment Playbook shows us how to do it. Organized around 33 discrete tools, the Playbook provides a clear and actionable scaffold for building an assessment protocol that captures compelling student outcomes, such as perseverance, compassion, and creativity, and that links those outcomes to the investments we make to classrooms and schools. Emphasizing both coherence and precision, the Montessori Assessment Playbook shows us how to develop and implement a comprehensive assessment framework focused on human flourishing and, just as important, why such a framework is urgently needed. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Inside the black box Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam, 1998 Offers practical advice on using and improving assessment for learning in the classroom. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: RTI Approach to Evaluating Learning Disabilities Joseph F. Kovaleski, Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, Timothy J. Runge, Perry A. Zirkel, Edward S. Shapiro, 2022-11-11 From leading authorities, this indispensable work is now in a revised and expanded second edition, presenting state-of-the-art tools and procedures for practitioners. The book shows how to use response to intervention (RTI) to evaluate K–12 students for specific learning disabilities (SLD). The second edition gives increased attention to optimizing the instructional environment in the context of a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Procedures are described for screening at-risk students; using RTI to intensify instruction in reading, writing, and math; identifying SLD; determining eligibility for special education; and planning individualized education programs. Case examples and pointers for practice are woven throughout. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible tools that can be downloaded and printed for repeated use. New to This Edition *Incorporates contemporary perspectives on SLD, upgraded procedures for implementing an MTSS, new approaches to measuring RTI, and enhancements in using classroom observations. *Chapter on best practices in academic screening, including important dos and don'ts. *Separate chapters on using RTI for reading, written expression, and mathematics. *Chapter on RTI and special education law, focusing on what practitioners need to know. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Classroom Assessment W. James Popham, 2018-03-07 Jim Popham's widely popular Classroom Assessment shows teachers how to use classroom testing skillfully and formatively to dramatically increase their teaching effectiveness and make a difference in how well students learn. As in past editions, the author pays particular attention to the instructional payoffs of well-designed classroom tests and highlights the implications of testing on teaching throughout in special But What Does This Have to Do with Teaching? sections in each chapter. Decision Time vignettes present practical classroom problems and show readers actual decisions being made. Parent Talk features describe situations in which a teacher needs to explain something about assessment to parents and show what the author would say in that situation. And a lighter tone is established with cartoons to which readers can relate. The new Eighth Edition highlights the increasing importance of educational assessment in an era of common core state standards and teacher evaluations based on students' tests scores, incorporates the Standards for Educational and Psychological testing guidelines throughout relevant sections, and includes a new section on instructionally diagnostic tests to help readers evaluate the merits of commercial or locally developed diagnostic assessment. Also available with MyLab Education MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Education helps teacher candidates bridge the gap between theory and practice-better preparing them for success in their future classrooms. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Education does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Education, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Education search for: 0134027299 / 9780134027296 Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know with MyEducationLab with Enhanced Pearson eText, Loose-Leaf Version -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134053869 / 9780134053868 Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, Loose-Leaf Version 0134239903 / 9780134239903 MyEducationLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The Special Educator′s Guide to Assessment Tara S. Guerriero, Mary A. Houser, Vicki A. McGinley, 2020-07-23 The Special Educator′s Guide to Assessment: A Comprehensive Summary by IDEA Disability Category focuses on the role that assessment plays in the diagnosis of a disability, determination of eligibility for special education services, and education of students with disabilities to provide a meaningful interconnection between assessment concepts and classroom application for teachers. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Revolutionize Assessment Rick Stiggins, 2014-05-13 Confront the emerging assessment crisis in American education Rick Stiggins details profound changes in the mission of our schools that requires a bold new vision of excellence in assessment. He combines decades of experience with international research to define a vision that uses assessment to supercharge student learning, not merely measure it. This book: Analyzes the motivational psychology of being evaluated in the classroom from the student’s perspective Offers strategies for engaging students in self-assessment in ways that maximize their engagement and confidences as they learn Details the long-missing conditions of classroom assessment literacy that must be in place in local schools |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Classroom-based Assessment Gerald Tindal, Doug Marston, 1990 |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Rti: Phonological Awareness Interventions for the Regular Classroom Teacher Sherri Dobbs Santos, 2009-05-01 RTI Phonological Awareness Interventions for the Regular Classroom Teacher is an innovative manual designed to assist teachers with the implementation of evidence based interventions for letter recognition, letter sounds, rhyming and word families, word parts and segmenting, and blending. Equipped with step-by-step lesson instructions, lesson mini-assessments, progress monitoring assessments, flashcards, and picture cards, this manual provides the regular classroom teacher or interventionist with the tools necessary to confidently and competently implement RTI interventions for their students. Also included are 22 lessons devoted to sight word recognition. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading Robert J. Marzano, 2011-10-27 Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Curriculum-Based Measurement John Hosp, Michelle Hosp, 2012 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. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Knowing What Students Know National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, 2001-10-27 Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition Jennifer Irene Militzer-Kopperl, 2022-12-15 The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition is a reading, writing, and language arts program for Waldorf schools grades 1-3. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The ABCs of CBM, Second Edition Michelle K. Hosp, John L. Hosp, Kenneth W. Howell, 2016-04-05 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 |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Words Their Way Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine R. Johnston, 2012 Words Their Way is a hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This fifth edition features updated activities, expanded coverage of English learners, and emphasis on progress monitoring. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, 1998-07-22 While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Recommendations address the identification of groups of children at risk, effective instruction for the preschool and early grades, effective approaches to dialects and bilingualism, the importance of these findings for the professional development of teachers, and gaps that remain in our understanding of how children learn to read. Implications for parents, teachers, schools, communities, the media, and government at all levels are discussed. The book examines the epidemiology of reading problems and introduces the concepts used by experts in the field. In a clear and readable narrative, word identification, comprehension, and other processes in normal reading development are discussed. Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Put Reading First: the Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read Bonnie B. Armbruster, 2010-11 |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Leading for Literacy Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2022-03-07 Leading for Literacy: What Every School Leader Needs to Knowis an inspiring and practical resource for all school leaders-teacher leaders, literacy coaches, school administrators, and district-level leaders. Filled with useful look-for tools for observing literacy teaching and reflecting upon the culture and systems of your school, Leading for Literacyhelps school leaders understand key principles of effective literacy teaching and create equitable communities of learning for all students. Leading for Literacyprovides guidance for creating a culture of collaborative professionalism, facilitating conversations about effective practice, and making high-impact decisions based on evidence and the values identified by the school team. An important resource for every school leader aiming to scale up excellence, Leading for Literacyhelps leaders create effective systems for improving the literacy outcomes of all students. With OVER 30 TOOLS to support your work, discover how to... Beginning of the book - 1. Harness the foundations of inspirational school leadership 2. Build effective teams that deliver high outcomes for all students 3. Create a common vision and shared values to create a healthy, collaborative school culture Middle of the book - 4. Implement evidence-based instructional practices 5. Observe and document student progress effectively 6. Teach English learners strategically 7. Design effective systems for intervention 8. Create high-quality book collections End of the book - 9. Harness responsibilities and opportunities as a school leader 10. Create new leadership opportunities 11. Nurture coaches and teacher leaders as important agents of change 12. Sustain and scale up systemic improvements in your district or school |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Reading Fluency Timothy Rasinski, William Rupley, David Paige, Chase Young, 2021-01-21 Reading fluency has been identified as a key component of proficient reading. Research has consistently demonstrated significant and substantial correlations between reading fluency and overall reading achievement. Despite the great potential for fluency to have a significant outcome on students’ reading achievement, it continues to be not well understood by teachers, school administrators and policy makers. The chapters in this volume examine reading fluency from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapter sketches the history of fluency as a literacy instruction component. Following chapters examine recent studies and approaches to reading fluency, followed by chapters that explore actual fluency instruction models and the impact of fluency instruction. Assessment of reading fluency is critical for monitoring progress and identifying students in need of intervention. Two articles on assessment, one focused on word recognition and the other on prosody, expand our understanding of fluency measurement. Finally, a study from Turkey explores the relationship of various reading competencies, including fluency, in an integrated model of reading. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into reading fluency and fluency instruction and move toward making fluency instruction an even more integral part of all literacy instruction. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Benchmark Advance Peter Afflerbach, Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes, Queta Fernandez, Adria Fay Klein, Linda Hoyt, Carrie Smith, 2018 |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Managing Challenging Behaviors in Schools Holly Mariah Menzies, Allison L. Bruhn, 2010-01-01 No one knows the literature on challenging behavior better than Lane and her colleagues. This book translates that knowledge into practice in a way that teachers will benefit from tremendously. With a focus on both instructional and management variables associated with preventing and dealing with difficult behavior, the book provides concise, easy-to-follow explantions of interventions. It is a unique resource that preservice and practicing teachers will refer to often.---Timothy J. Landrum, PhD, Department of Special Education, University of Louisville I am extremely impressed with this book, including its content, organization, and the strong emphasis on workable, effective strategies for today's schools and classrooms. The strategies are presented in the context of a three-tiered model that allows teachers to specifically match student needs. I have not seen a resource of this type that is so well tailored to the needs of classroom teachers.---Hill M. Walker, PhD, Codirector, Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, University of Oregon Using the best evidence from research and practice, this comprehensive book presents a wealth of information for managing challenging behavioral difficulties in schools. Readers learn how to systematically plan and deliver approaches that increase in intensity of support. The strategies are described in a step-by-step format, with consideration for different age groups of learners, so that both new and experienced teachers can immediately apply them in their classrooms. As a text, this book would be an excellent addition to any teacher education, educational administration, or school psychology training program. It will also be an extremely useful professional development resource.---Melody Tankersley, PhD, Special Education Program, Kent State University This book provides tested, easy-to-implement strategies for preventing problem behavior in the classroom and responding effectively when it does occur. Chapters describe specific steps that K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals can take to develop effective classroom rules and routines, plan suitably challenging instruction, and promote student engagement and motivation. Presenting a continuum of strategies from prevention to more intensive behavior supports, the book offers clear-cut instructions for implementing behavioral contracts, self-monitoring, and functional assessment-based interventions. Special features include more than a dozen reproducible checklists, selfassessment tools, and planning forms; the large-size format facilitates photocopying. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Assessment in Early Childhood Education Sue C. Wortham, 2013-11-01 For Assessment courses in Early Childhood Education. One of the most accessible and practical textbooks available on assessing young children from infancy through age 8. It provides the full range of types of assessment and how, when, and why to use them. An excellent introduction to assessing young children, Assessment in Early Childhood Education continues with the inclusion of all types of assessments that can be used with infants and young children. Key changes and updates to this edition include: updated and streamlined figures, examples, and models of assessment that aid pre-service teachers to learn how to apply the principles of quality assessments; new activities at the end of the chapters provide opportunities for students to apply their own performance activities to demonstrate understanding of chapter contents; the effects of No Child Left Behind have been updated; newly revised information on children from diverse cultures and languages and children with disabilities has been added; and information on new and current trends toward accountability are discussed, as well as the impact of high-stakes testing. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability Karrie A. Shogren, LaRon A. Scott, Evan E. Dean, Brad Linnenkamp, 2024-09-10 Now in its second edition, this comprehensive handbook emphasizes research-based practices for educating students with intellectual disability across the life course, from early childhood supports through the transition to adulthood. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches, lived experience and expertise, and philosophies, the book is updated with new theory and research-based practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, to help readers select interventions and supports based on the evidence of their effectiveness. Considering the field of intellectual disability from a transdisciplinary perspective, it integrates a greater focus on advancing equity in educational outcomes for students. This book is a professional resource and graduate level text for preservice and in-service educators, psychologists, speech/language therapists and other clinicians involved in the education of children, youth, and adults with intellectual disability. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Why We Assess Students -- And How James E. McLean, Robert E. Lockwood, 1996-01-18 The authors have applied their extensive expertise in the area of assessment to create an easily read, powerful book. Put it on your desk and use it frequently. It's a keeper. From the Foreword by Jerry J. Herman and Janice L. Herman Profiles the role assessment plays in education. Outlines purposes and types and how you can best implement them. Explores how to use assessment programs to address the sometimes conflicting concerns of parents, teachers, school administrators, and the voting public. Here you'll find detailed descriptions of norm-referenced tests, criterion-referenced tests, and alternative assessment strategies. The authors also provide guidelines to help you to deal with special populations and reduce student bias. They offer examples of model assessment programs and show you what steps to take to establish them in your school or classroom. If your teachers, parents, and community leaders are clamoring for better assessment in your school or district, and you need to satisfy their competing demands of accountability and instruction, this book is for you. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: RTI With Differentiated Instruction, Grades 68 Jodi O'Meara, 2011-03-02 Written in a practical format with lesson plans and examples, this book gives middle school teachers a streamlined strategy for merging differentiated instruction and RTI. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: Creative Curriculum Teaching Strategies, Gryphon House, Delmar Thomson Learning, 1988-01-01 The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: The Data Toolkit Robert T. Hess, Pam Robbins, 2012 The authors provide ten easy-to-use data analysis tools that facilitate problem-solving at school and district levels. Included are instructions, sample scenarios, and case studies. |
| benchmark assessment and progress monitoring tools: RTI for English Language Learners Seth Aldrich, 2010-10 This book provides guidance for educators (teachers, support staff, school administrators and instructors in schools of education) to assess, understand and address the needs of English language learners within the context of the Response to Intervention process. This book empowers general and special educators, as well as support staff, to take on important roles and activities without necessarily having to speak the student¿s native language. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Developmental Reading Assessment Joetta Beaver, Mark A. Carter, 2003 Gives middle school teachers a range of tools to help monitor literacy behavior continuously as they teach, as well as conduct periodic assessments for accountability. Intended to guide teachers' ongoing observations of student's progress within a literature-based reading program. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: RTI Toolkit Jim Wright, 2007 This book will provide school administrators and teachers with the essential techniques, resources, and guidelines to start a comprehensive “Response To Intervention” process in their own schools. The reader will learn how to: · Help stakeholders “buy-in” to the RTI process · Inventory and organize intervention resources · Create research-based and classroom-friendly student intervention plans · Set objective goals for student improvement · Apply decision rules to determine when a student who fails to respond to intervention should be referred |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Assessing Reading Multiple Measures - Revised 2nd Edition Linda Diamond, B. J. Thorsnes, 2018 A collection of formal and informal English and Spanish reading assessments for students in grades K-12. Includes assessment instructions, assessments and teacher scoring forms. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Leveled Books (K-8) Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2006 For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Math Running Records in Action Nicki Newton, 2016-06-17 In this new book from popular consultant and bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton, you’ll discover how to use Math Running Records to assess students’ basic fact fluency and increase student achievement. Like a GPS, Math Running Records pinpoint exactly where students are in their understanding of basic math facts and then outline the next steps toward comprehensive fluency. This practical book introduces a research-based framework to assess students’ thinking and move them toward becoming confident, proficient, flexible mathematicians with a robust sense of numbers. Topics include: Learning how often to administer Math Running Records and how to strategically introduce them into your existing curriculum; Analyzing, and interpreting Math Running Records for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; Using the data gathered from Math Running Records to implement evidence-based, research-driven instruction. Evaluating students’ speed, accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency to help them attain computational fluency; Each chapter offers a variety of charts and tools that you can use in the classroom immediately, and the strategies can easily be adapted for students at all levels of math fluency across grades K-8. Videos of sample running records are also available for download at https://guidedmath.wordpress.com/math-running-records-videos. Blackline masters are available on the Running Records Dropbox at https://bit.ly/3gnggIq |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Curriculum-based Measurement Mark R. Shinn, 1989-03-17 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. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Guided Reading Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2017 Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential. Now with Guided Reading, Second Edition, (re)discover the essential elements of guided reading through: a wider and more comprehensive look at its place within a coherent literacy system a refined and deeper understanding of its complexity an examination of the steps in implementation-from observing and assessing literacy behaviors, to grouping in a thoughtful and dynamic way, to analyzing texts, to teaching the lesson the teaching for systems of strategic actions a rich text base that can support and extend student learning the re-emerging role of shared reading as a way to lead guided and independent reading forward the development of managed independent learning across the grades an in-depth exploration of responsive teaching the role of facilitative language in supporting change over time in students' processing systems the identification of high-priority shifts in learning to focus on at each text level the creation of a learning environment within which literacy and language can flourish. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply their reading power to all literacy contexts. Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Introducing Texts Effectively in Guided Reading Lessons |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System 1 Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2007 |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Orange (Grade K) Program Guide Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2009-08-05 Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2016 There has never been a more comprehensive resource available to teachers that does what the continuum does - provide specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text. More in-depth, more intuitive, and more essential than ever-The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition enables teachers to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves. The Literacy Continuum provides a way to look for specific evidence of learning from prekindergarten through grade eight, and across eight instructional contexts. Each instructional context contributes substantially, in different but complementary ways, to students' development of the literacy process. With this indispensable literacy tool, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of The Literacy Continuum's critical role in transforming literacy teaching and learning. (Re)Discover The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition to: elevate your language and literacy expertise develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers build your understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time hone your observation of students' literacy behaviors teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision build professional learning opportunities with colleagues create a common vision and common language for literacy in your school. Look for these new enhancements inside: Streamlined organization and navigation Expanded behaviors and examples across the continua First appearance of a behavior or goal or text characteristic is indicated by a red square (Behaviors are acquired and then elaborated over time) Clear organization of and explicit links to the Systems of Strategic Actions Four-color design for clarity and focus Also check out our on-demand mini-course: Thinking and Talking About Books Across the Day. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Reading Assessment in an RTI Framework Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, Michael C. McKenna, 2012-10-09 From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal, and curriculum-based measures to assess key components of reading development and make informed choices about instruction. The book describes how to survey existing assessment practices in a school and craft a systematic plan for improvement; reproducible tools include a 10-page RTI Assessment Audit that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size. See also Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition, which explains the fundamentals of assessment and provides essential hands-on tools. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Differentiated Reading Instruction Sharon Walpole, Michael C. McKenna, 2007-01-24 This book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups and monitor student progress; plan which skills to target and when; and implement carefully selected instructional strategies. Vivid classroom examples illustrate what differentiated instruction looks like in action in each of the primary grades. For additional helpful resources, including classroom-ready lesson plans, teachers can purchase the complementary volume, How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction: Resources for Grades K-3. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The Next Step in Guided Reading Jan Richardson, 2009 Teachers facing the challenge of meeting the diverse reading needs of students will find the structure and tools they need in Jan Richardson's powerful approach to guided reading. Richardson has identified the essential components of an effective guided reading lesson: targeted assessments, data analysis that pinpoints specific strategies students need, and the use of guided writing to support the reading process. Each chapter contains planning sheets to help teachers analyze assessments in order to group students and select a teaching focus Includes detailed, ready-to-go lesson plans for all stages of reading: emergent, early, transitional, and fluent |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Inside the black box Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam, 1998 Offers practical advice on using and improving assessment for learning in the classroom. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: RTI Approach to Evaluating Learning Disabilities Joseph F. Kovaleski, Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, Timothy J. Runge, Perry A. Zirkel, Edward S. Shapiro, 2022-11-11 From leading authorities, this indispensable work is now in a revised and expanded second edition, presenting state-of-the-art tools and procedures for practitioners. The book shows how to use response to intervention (RTI) to evaluate K–12 students for specific learning disabilities (SLD). The second edition gives increased attention to optimizing the instructional environment in the context of a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Procedures are described for screening at-risk students; using RTI to intensify instruction in reading, writing, and math; identifying SLD; determining eligibility for special education; and planning individualized education programs. Case examples and pointers for practice are woven throughout. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes reproducible tools that can be downloaded and printed for repeated use. New to This Edition *Incorporates contemporary perspectives on SLD, upgraded procedures for implementing an MTSS, new approaches to measuring RTI, and enhancements in using classroom observations. *Chapter on best practices in academic screening, including important dos and don'ts. *Separate chapters on using RTI for reading, written expression, and mathematics. *Chapter on RTI and special education law, focusing on what practitioners need to know. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Classroom Assessment W. James Popham, 2018-03-07 Jim Popham's widely popular Classroom Assessment shows teachers how to use classroom testing skillfully and formatively to dramatically increase their teaching effectiveness and make a difference in how well students learn. As in past editions, the author pays particular attention to the instructional payoffs of well-designed classroom tests and highlights the implications of testing on teaching throughout in special But What Does This Have to Do with Teaching? sections in each chapter. Decision Time vignettes present practical classroom problems and show readers actual decisions being made. Parent Talk features describe situations in which a teacher needs to explain something about assessment to parents and show what the author would say in that situation. And a lighter tone is established with cartoons to which readers can relate. The new Eighth Edition highlights the increasing importance of educational assessment in an era of common core state standards and teacher evaluations based on students' tests scores, incorporates the Standards for Educational and Psychological testing guidelines throughout relevant sections, and includes a new section on instructionally diagnostic tests to help readers evaluate the merits of commercial or locally developed diagnostic assessment. Also available with MyLab Education MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. MyLab Education helps teacher candidates bridge the gap between theory and practice-better preparing them for success in their future classrooms. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Education does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Education, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Education search for: 0134027299 / 9780134027296 Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know with MyEducationLab with Enhanced Pearson eText, Loose-Leaf Version -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134053869 / 9780134053868 Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, Loose-Leaf Version 0134239903 / 9780134239903 MyEducationLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Revolutionize Assessment Rick Stiggins, 2014-05-13 Confront the emerging assessment crisis in American education Rick Stiggins details profound changes in the mission of our schools that requires a bold new vision of excellence in assessment. He combines decades of experience with international research to define a vision that uses assessment to supercharge student learning, not merely measure it. This book: Analyzes the motivational psychology of being evaluated in the classroom from the student’s perspective Offers strategies for engaging students in self-assessment in ways that maximize their engagement and confidences as they learn Details the long-missing conditions of classroom assessment literacy that must be in place in local schools |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The Special Educator′s Guide to Assessment Tara S. Guerriero, Mary A. Houser, Vicki A. McGinley, 2020-07-23 The Special Educator′s Guide to Assessment: A Comprehensive Summary by IDEA Disability Category focuses on the role that assessment plays in the diagnosis of a disability, determination of eligibility for special education services, and education of students with disabilities to provide a meaningful interconnection between assessment concepts and classroom application for teachers. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Classroom-based Assessment Gerald Tindal, Doug Marston, 1990 |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Rti: Phonological Awareness Interventions for the Regular Classroom Teacher Sherri Dobbs Santos, 2009-05-01 RTI Phonological Awareness Interventions for the Regular Classroom Teacher is an innovative manual designed to assist teachers with the implementation of evidence based interventions for letter recognition, letter sounds, rhyming and word families, word parts and segmenting, and blending. Equipped with step-by-step lesson instructions, lesson mini-assessments, progress monitoring assessments, flashcards, and picture cards, this manual provides the regular classroom teacher or interventionist with the tools necessary to confidently and competently implement RTI interventions for their students. Also included are 22 lessons devoted to sight word recognition. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Curriculum-Based Measurement John Hosp, Michelle Hosp, 2012 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. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition Jennifer Irene Militzer-Kopperl, 2022-12-15 The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition is a reading, writing, and language arts program for Waldorf schools grades 1-3. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading Robert J. Marzano, 2011-10-27 Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Knowing What Students Know National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education, Board on Testing and Assessment, Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, 2001-10-27 Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The ABCs of CBM, Second Edition Michelle K. Hosp, John L. Hosp, Kenneth W. Howell, 2016-04-05 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 |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Words Their Way Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine R. Johnston, 2012 Words Their Way is a hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This fifth edition features updated activities, expanded coverage of English learners, and emphasis on progress monitoring. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, 1998-07-22 While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Recommendations address the identification of groups of children at risk, effective instruction for the preschool and early grades, effective approaches to dialects and bilingualism, the importance of these findings for the professional development of teachers, and gaps that remain in our understanding of how children learn to read. Implications for parents, teachers, schools, communities, the media, and government at all levels are discussed. The book examines the epidemiology of reading problems and introduces the concepts used by experts in the field. In a clear and readable narrative, word identification, comprehension, and other processes in normal reading development are discussed. Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Put Reading First: the Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read Bonnie B. Armbruster, 2010-11 |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Leading for Literacy Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2022-03-07 Leading for Literacy: What Every School Leader Needs to Knowis an inspiring and practical resource for all school leaders-teacher leaders, literacy coaches, school administrators, and district-level leaders. Filled with useful look-for tools for observing literacy teaching and reflecting upon the culture and systems of your school, Leading for Literacyhelps school leaders understand key principles of effective literacy teaching and create equitable communities of learning for all students. Leading for Literacyprovides guidance for creating a culture of collaborative professionalism, facilitating conversations about effective practice, and making high-impact decisions based on evidence and the values identified by the school team. An important resource for every school leader aiming to scale up excellence, Leading for Literacyhelps leaders create effective systems for improving the literacy outcomes of all students. With OVER 30 TOOLS to support your work, discover how to... Beginning of the book - 1. Harness the foundations of inspirational school leadership 2. Build effective teams that deliver high outcomes for all students 3. Create a common vision and shared values to create a healthy, collaborative school culture Middle of the book - 4. Implement evidence-based instructional practices 5. Observe and document student progress effectively 6. Teach English learners strategically 7. Design effective systems for intervention 8. Create high-quality book collections End of the book - 9. Harness responsibilities and opportunities as a school leader 10. Create new leadership opportunities 11. Nurture coaches and teacher leaders as important agents of change 12. Sustain and scale up systemic improvements in your district or school |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition Michael C. McKenna, Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, 2015-06-23 This book has been replaced by Assessment for Reading Instruction, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4157-7. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Benchmark Advance Peter Afflerbach, Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes, Queta Fernandez, Adria Fay Klein, Linda Hoyt, Carrie Smith, 2018 |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Managing Challenging Behaviors in Schools Holly Mariah Menzies, Allison L. Bruhn, 2010-01-01 No one knows the literature on challenging behavior better than Lane and her colleagues. This book translates that knowledge into practice in a way that teachers will benefit from tremendously. With a focus on both instructional and management variables associated with preventing and dealing with difficult behavior, the book provides concise, easy-to-follow explantions of interventions. It is a unique resource that preservice and practicing teachers will refer to often.---Timothy J. Landrum, PhD, Department of Special Education, University of Louisville I am extremely impressed with this book, including its content, organization, and the strong emphasis on workable, effective strategies for today's schools and classrooms. The strategies are presented in the context of a three-tiered model that allows teachers to specifically match student needs. I have not seen a resource of this type that is so well tailored to the needs of classroom teachers.---Hill M. Walker, PhD, Codirector, Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, University of Oregon Using the best evidence from research and practice, this comprehensive book presents a wealth of information for managing challenging behavioral difficulties in schools. Readers learn how to systematically plan and deliver approaches that increase in intensity of support. The strategies are described in a step-by-step format, with consideration for different age groups of learners, so that both new and experienced teachers can immediately apply them in their classrooms. As a text, this book would be an excellent addition to any teacher education, educational administration, or school psychology training program. It will also be an extremely useful professional development resource.---Melody Tankersley, PhD, Special Education Program, Kent State University This book provides tested, easy-to-implement strategies for preventing problem behavior in the classroom and responding effectively when it does occur. Chapters describe specific steps that K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals can take to develop effective classroom rules and routines, plan suitably challenging instruction, and promote student engagement and motivation. Presenting a continuum of strategies from prevention to more intensive behavior supports, the book offers clear-cut instructions for implementing behavioral contracts, self-monitoring, and functional assessment-based interventions. Special features include more than a dozen reproducible checklists, selfassessment tools, and planning forms; the large-size format facilitates photocopying. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Assessment in Early Childhood Education Sue C. Wortham, 2013-11-01 For Assessment courses in Early Childhood Education. One of the most accessible and practical textbooks available on assessing young children from infancy through age 8. It provides the full range of types of assessment and how, when, and why to use them. An excellent introduction to assessing young children, Assessment in Early Childhood Education continues with the inclusion of all types of assessments that can be used with infants and young children. Key changes and updates to this edition include: updated and streamlined figures, examples, and models of assessment that aid pre-service teachers to learn how to apply the principles of quality assessments; new activities at the end of the chapters provide opportunities for students to apply their own performance activities to demonstrate understanding of chapter contents; the effects of No Child Left Behind have been updated; newly revised information on children from diverse cultures and languages and children with disabilities has been added; and information on new and current trends toward accountability are discussed, as well as the impact of high-stakes testing. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability Karrie A. Shogren, LaRon A. Scott, Evan E. Dean, Brad Linnenkamp, 2024-09-10 Now in its second edition, this comprehensive handbook emphasizes research-based practices for educating students with intellectual disability across the life course, from early childhood supports through the transition to adulthood. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches, lived experience and expertise, and philosophies, the book is updated with new theory and research-based practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, to help readers select interventions and supports based on the evidence of their effectiveness. Considering the field of intellectual disability from a transdisciplinary perspective, it integrates a greater focus on advancing equity in educational outcomes for students. This book is a professional resource and graduate level text for preservice and in-service educators, psychologists, speech/language therapists and other clinicians involved in the education of children, youth, and adults with intellectual disability. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Why We Assess Students -- And How James E. McLean, Robert E. Lockwood, 1996-01-18 The authors have applied their extensive expertise in the area of assessment to create an easily read, powerful book. Put it on your desk and use it frequently. It's a keeper. From the Foreword by Jerry J. Herman and Janice L. Herman Profiles the role assessment plays in education. Outlines purposes and types and how you can best implement them. Explores how to use assessment programs to address the sometimes conflicting concerns of parents, teachers, school administrators, and the voting public. Here you'll find detailed descriptions of norm-referenced tests, criterion-referenced tests, and alternative assessment strategies. The authors also provide guidelines to help you to deal with special populations and reduce student bias. They offer examples of model assessment programs and show you what steps to take to establish them in your school or classroom. If your teachers, parents, and community leaders are clamoring for better assessment in your school or district, and you need to satisfy their competing demands of accountability and instruction, this book is for you. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: RTI With Differentiated Instruction, Grades 68 Jodi O'Meara, 2011-03-02 Written in a practical format with lesson plans and examples, this book gives middle school teachers a streamlined strategy for merging differentiated instruction and RTI. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Creative Curriculum Teaching Strategies, Gryphon House, Delmar Thomson Learning, 1988-01-01 The Creative Curriculum comes alive! This videotape-winner of the 1989 Silver Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival-demonstrates how teachers set the stage for learning by creating a dynamic well-organized environment. It shows children involved in seven of the interest areas in the The Creative Curriculum and explains how they learn in each area. Everyone conducts in-service training workshops for staff and parents or who teaches early childhood education courses will find the video an indispensable tool for explainin appropriate practice. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: The Data Toolkit Robert T. Hess, Pam Robbins, 2012 The authors provide ten easy-to-use data analysis tools that facilitate problem-solving at school and district levels. Included are instructions, sample scenarios, and case studies. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: RTI for English Language Learners Seth Aldrich, 2010-10 This book provides guidance for educators (teachers, support staff, school administrators and instructors in schools of education) to assess, understand and address the needs of English language learners within the context of the Response to Intervention process. This book empowers general and special educators, as well as support staff, to take on important roles and activities without necessarily having to speak the student¿s native language. |
| benchmark assessment and progress-monitoring tools: Response to Intervention and Continuous School Improvement Victoria Bernhardt, Connie Hebert, 2014-01-09 Ensure the success of your school and improve the learning of all students by implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) as part of a continuous school improvement (CSI) process. This book shows you how to get your entire staff working together to design, implement, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system. With specific examples, CSI experts Victoria Bernhardt and Connie L. Hebert demonstrate each step of the RTI process as it relates to continuous school improvement. By applying effective RTI strategies in your classrooms, you'll put your school on a path toward continuous improvement. The strategies in this book will help administrators, teachers, book study groups, and other educators use RTI to achieve their CSI goals! |
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benchmark主要对比别人的方法，这个方法不一定是最好的，但一定是最有代表性且被广泛认可的（一种标准和规则）。 其所用的数据就是 benchmark data ，其方法就是benchmark method，你提出的 …
Lycanthrope | Benchmark Forum
4 days ago · Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje posetioce kroz mnoštvo sadržaja koji pokrivaju kako lokalno tržiste, tako i …
Mobilni telefoni - Benchmark Forum
Jun 1, 2025 · Diskusija o hardveru i softveru mobilnih telefona različitih proizvođača. Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje …
Benchmark Forum
Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje posetioce kroz mnoštvo sadržaja koji pokrivaju kako lokalno tržiste, tako i globalne …
如何理解Benchmarks？ - 知乎
领域特定：Benchmark通常是领域特定的，因为不同的任务和数据集可能需要不同的性能度量和标准。例如，计算机视觉领域的Benchmark可能与自然语言处理领域的Benchmark不同。 连续 …
SOTA，benchmark和baseline分别是什么意思？ - 知乎
例如，ML10M benchmark 指 在ML10M这个数据集上进行实验。 baseline指的是一个基准，也叫基线，简单来说就是用来对比的一个参照对象，人们往往通过用和baseline比较性能的方式来凸 …
Hardver | Benchmark Forum
Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje posetioce kroz mnoštvo sadržaja koji pokrivaju kako lokalno tržiste, tako i globalne …
Online servisi - Benchmark Forum
Sep 17, 2008 · Chat, video conferencing, servisi za čuvanje podataka, email servisi, eUprava, SAAS - sve ono što koristimo online kao zamenu za klasičan offline softver
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OnLine kupovina - Benchmark Forum
May 20, 2024 · Kupovina na internetu - ebay, amazon, alibaba i sl i servisi za plaćanje. Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i …
baseline和benchmark有什么区别？ - 知乎
benchmark主要对比别人的方法，这个方法不一定是最好的，但一定是最有代表性且被广泛认可的（一种标准和规则）。 其所用的数据就是 benchmark data ，其方法就是benchmark …
Lycanthrope | Benchmark Forum
4 days ago · Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje posetioce kroz mnoštvo sadržaja koji pokrivaju kako lokalno tržiste, tako i …
Mobilni telefoni - Benchmark Forum
Jun 1, 2025 · Diskusija o hardveru i softveru mobilnih telefona različitih proizvođača. Benchmark sajt je najpopularniji ICT medij u Srbiji koji na dnevnom nivou informiše, edukuje i savetuje …
