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Partnering with Iowa’s Local Schools. Overview: Universal Screening & Progress Monitoring Assessments for PK-6. Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids. Adapted from a presentation developed and delivered by Michelle Hosp & Brad Niebling, Iowa DOE, and Sue Daker, Keystone AEA.
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Partnering with Iowa’s Local Schools Overview: Universal Screening & Progress Monitoring Assessments for PK-6 Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids Adapted from a presentation developed and delivered by Michelle Hosp & Brad Niebling, Iowa DOE, and Sue Daker, Keystone AEA
Definitions: Universal Screening & Progress Monitoring Universal Screening Assessments: are administered to ALL students to identify which students are at-risk for failure on a meaningful outcome measure. Progress Monitoring Assessments: are administered to only those students who are receiving additional instruction beyond Universal to determine if they are benefiting from that instruction. • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 •
Questions that can be answered with Universal Screening Data--- • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 • Is Universal instruction meeting the needs of the majority of our students? At the beginning of 1st grade which students are at-risk for not being proficient in reading by the end of 1st grade on a meaningful outcome measure?
Questions that can be answered with Progress Monitoring Data--- • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 • Is this student responding positively to the reading intervention they are receiving? Is this student learning at a rate that will ensure they will reach their goal (i.e., close the gap)?
Critical Features of Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring Assessments • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 •
FAST • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 • • FAST stands for Formative Assessment System for Teachers • They are out of the University of Minnesota • Dr. Ted Christ is the Developer • FAST includes a suite of assessments: • earlyReading • CBMReading • aReading
IGDIs • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 • • IGDIs stands for Individual Growth and Development Indicators • They are out of the University of Minnesota and Early Learning Labs Inc. • Dr. Scott McConnell is the Developer • Direct Measures of Early Literacy Construct: • First Sounds • Picture Naming • Rhyming • Sound Identification • Which one doesn’t belong
For More Information • Collaborating for Iowa’s Kids • Phase One Implementation • June 2013 • LINK TO POST QUESTIONS: https://sites.google.com/site/datasystemassessments/faq LINK FOR RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS: http://educateiowa.gov/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=15291&Itemid=4303 LINK TO WEBINAR: http://tinyurl.com/IARTIAssessOverview