The following additional resources are available for easyCBM on the Resources and Admin pages of the application.
Training—Links to training and tutorials that assist users in gaining proficiency with test administration for both the group-administered measures (Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Vocabulary) and the fluency-based measures (Letter Names, Letter Sounds, Phoneme Segmenting, Word Reading Fluency, and Passage Reading Fluency). Each module includes a short narrative description of the measure, video clips of the test administration (approximately one minute in length), audio of the correct pronunciation of letters or sounds contained in the assessment, and opportunities to practice administering assessments.
Manuals & Online Help
easyCBM Overview Manual—A comprehensive user guide that describes easyCBM assessments in terms of theory, method, and merit.
easyCBM Online Help—listed per user role, based on access and tasks associated with those roles, and containing specific information on how to use the easyCBM online platform. Online help includes step procedures and screenshots illustrating actions. Choose the role/access-level that matches your own, then browse the Table of Contents or use the Search feature to quickly find the information you need.
Videos:
Embedded—In this series of video tutorials, the easyCBM authors provide key information about the assessments themselves as well as concepts like Response to Intervention, data decision making, and percentile ranks. You can find links to the videos on the relevant pages of the application.
How-to—Videos (approximately 5–8 minutes) showing common tasks such as import functions and the easyCBM interface.
Technical Reports & Research—Contains links to sites containing research related to easyCBM content and methods.
Quick Guides (Users/Head Admins)—2–6-page PDF guides instructing Users and Head Admins on how to perform common tasks in easyCBM.
Head Admin Resources (available only for the Head Admin role login)—Resources specifically geared toward Head Admins, such as CSV templates that load in Excel and are used as templates when uploading user, student, and teacher-student files (primarily at the start of a school year for rostering).
Important: Anyone who will be administering the easyCBM assessments should read the information provided and watch the example videos. (Be aware that not all of the videos support online or paper-and-pencil administration.)