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Progress graph for Mike in 4th
grade
Traditional Progress
Monitoring
| What is CBM: A simple set of procedures for repeated measurement of
student growth toward long-range instructional goals (Deno, 1985) |
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| Previous
research: Identified what measures
(valid, reliable, allow for decision making, improve teacher instruction and
student achievement) |
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| Building upon 25+
years of research begun at the IRLD by Stan Deno, Phyllis Mirkin, and
colleagues, and continued through research conducted by those such as Lynn
and Doug Fuchs, Mark Shinn, Gerry Tindal, Doug Marston and extended recently
to other areas and levels by those such as Scott McConnell and Mary McEvoy,
Roland Good and Ruth Kaminski, Charlie Greenwood, Anne Foegen, Susan Rose,
me, Teri, and Kristen |
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| So what’s left to
do? Previous research conducted within
ages, skill levels, content areas |
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| 1.
Ages: within preelem, elem,
middle, sec and reading (most preelem, elem), wrt (most sec), math (most
elem), science (little at all, only middle) |
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| 2.
Skill levels: most focused on
children without disabilities, or children with mild disabilities, little on
lower skill level students and little across levels |
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| 3.
Curriculum areas: most in
reading and math, more in writing, very little in content-area learning such
as science |
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