Selecting Measures

The measures available for you to administer to students are based on the following factors:

The tests available in easyCBM, including multiple choice math and reading tests and fluency reading tests, with the possible exception of any exclusions your Head Admin has specified during the configuration of easyCBM. (Specifically, your district can opt out of Basic Reading or Math, Spanish Reading or Math, or Basic Math.)

Grade level of your students: Some test names and subjects vary by grade. (Numbers Operations and Ratios, for example, is only administered at the 6th grade level.) Testing a student at a different grade level is allowed by some districts for Progress Monitoring measures.

For Benchmark measures, the test period window.For Benchmark measures, the test period window.

Only those assessments designated for testing purposes by the school district should be administered during the district-specified Benchmark testing window. District assessments are set up by your Head Administrator.

Nationally representative Benchmark norms are calculated using six-week windows of time:

Fall

Winter

Spring

September 1–October 15

January 1–February 15

May 1–June 15

 

A variety of Benchmark assessments are available.

For Progress Monitoring, the tests you select from the numbered lists, which contain different questions but which are equivalent in difficulty level.

 

Next steps:

Finding Benchmarks

Finding Progress Monitoring Measures