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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Alignment to easyCBM© Math In the summer of 2012,      experienced teachers from a school district in Texas were recruited to participate in a formal study of the      alignment between the TEKS and easyCBM. The results of the alignment study in the content area of math      are presented here, with overall alignment presented first, then more detailed results, by grade.      GrK-8TEKS_MathReport_Wray_ETAL

     Providing teachers information on student performance and progress.     easyCBM StdntPerformanceProgress_2010

RTI Early Childhood Summit (Sept. 26, 2011, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM). The Response To Intervention Action Network is dedicated to the effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) in school districts nationwide. Their goal is to guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RTI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students – including those with learning and attention issues – are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful.     Critical…
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Dynamically Generated Measures of Math – A site for teachers to develop worksheets and diagnostic      assessments in all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in grades K-5.      Problem type and difficulty can be manipulated to reflect important operation skills (e.g. borrowing, carrying, etc.).      DynamicMeasuresHandout.pdf

Diagnostic Reading Progress Monitoring (DPRM) – DRPM is a computer-based reading assessment that      offers 20 alternate forms each of two silent reading fluency and two vocabulary measures. The measures      are to be used as part of a response to intervention (RTI) system and provide diagnostic information to      supplement other measures. The DRPM reading measures are computer-based so teachers can efficiently      collect data. Reports highlight essential differences in the decoding aspects of performance (the silent reading     …
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Directed Reading Assessments (DRA) – Reading assessments that expand the existing reading measures      on easyCBM, Gr. 3 – 8, to include non-fiction (Read to Perform a Task, Informational Text) and shorter      fiction (Short Literary Text) passages.      DirectedRdgAssmnt

Distributed Item Review (DIR) – A web-based system for presenting test items to experts across a broad     geographic region so they can review them for important dimensions of bias, sensitivity, and alignment with standards      DIR_Riverside

     Including students with disabilities in large scale testing: Traveling blue highways and the many issues      encountered In the U.S. Tindal, G.     IncludingStdntsDisabilitiesLgScaleTesting_Tindal

     Individual differences or individual difference. Tindal, G.     IndividualDifference_Tindal