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Jill Yakel
Dr. Miller
7/25/16
While talking with Lisa, I was also able to get another teachers perspective, and I was
told that Lincoln Public Schools (LPS), doesnt require a specific CBM or CAT for assessment,
and that it is left up to the teachers as to what they want to use for assessments on students in
regards to progress monitoring. The only requirement is that the assessment tool must be a
researched-based assessment. I was told that for reading, all special education teachers at the
elementary level were using either the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) or the Jamestown
reading passages. The Jamestown reading passages cannot be started and used until fourth
grade, whereas the QRI can be used pre-primary through high school. Jamestown is multiple
choice, and students can read aloud and can be tested for grade-level fluency. Using Jamestown,
you can also use this assessment program to have the students look back to choose answers or
not look back; but I was told that most high schools are teaching the students to use look back
skills.
I feel that if LPS is wanting to increase student learning, they should decide on one set of
assessments that needs to be used throughout the district at all levels, k-12. Many students move
within the district and are forced to attend another school. If a student is listed as being in
special education and each school is using a different assessment method, then transferring those
records to another school where another assessment method is used, scores are going to be
misread and could be misinterpreted by another teacher, therefore causing undue hardship to the
student who has moved from one area of town to another.
References
Shapiro, E. S. (2013). Commentary on progress monitoring with cbm-r and decision making:
Problems found and looking for solutions. Journal of School Psychology, 59-66.
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