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DIBELS: One Piece of the Puzzle (handout)
1. Kurtis Hewson and Lorna Adrian March 5, 2012
DIBELS
One Piece of the Puzzle
Assessment is one component of a
Collaborative Response Model, a
school-wide framework to identify and
meet the individual needs of students
Effective When…
• Part of a responsive school-wide model that includes collaboration and Literacy Assessment
interventions Profile
• Flag students for conversation
• Focus on trends, not scores DIBELS
• Focused on student growth • Benchmark (3x a year)
• Indicate students for further investigation • Progress Monitoring
• One assessment within a student profile
GRADE
Ineffective When… • Annual common assessment
• Inform student transition,
• Used as the sole or primary measure of student reading achievement instruction
• Progress monitoring for all students
• Summative (reporting to parents) Teacher Assessments
• Focus on scores, not trends • Relation to learner outcomes
• Drives instruction (fluency is more than words per minute) • Further diagnostic evaluation
• Used as sole evidence to evaluate reading programs
• Determine teacher effectiveness Other
• Library circulation
• Home reading survey
What We Learned • Reading attitudes survey
• Focus on purpose – Indicators
• Utilize with a pilot grade when starting
• Determine passages for progress monitoring
• Administer using an assessment team
• Assessment schedule determined annually
• For use by staff
• Kept student focus at the forefront
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