aimswebPlus overview

Why aimswebPlus? Need for Must continue to More in-depth, standards-based, diagnostic reporting Common Core alignment Better information for instructional planning Robust assessment of early reading skills Progress monitoring measure of reading comprehension Greater sensitivity to growth Must continue to Be brief Provide a system for goal-setting and progress monitoring Be easy to administer and interpret

What is aimswebPlus? New system of assessments, scheduled for release January 2015 All the benefits of aimsweb, plus Additional layer of CCSS-aligned, diagnostic assessment Online testing for grades 2-12 (except oral fluency) Instructionally relevant Strengths and weaknesses by CCSS Lexiles Quantiles Uses the new aimsweb reporting system—alternative subscription to the original aimsweb

aimswebPlus structure Screening/benchmark assessment—three times a year Part 1: Maintains the unique qualities of brief, timed CBM Efficient—1 to 10 minutes Generalizable, predictive Highly sensitive to change/growth Part 2: Brief, diagnostic assessment Aligned to Common Core Untimed so students answer all items Yields strengths/weaknesses; informs instruction and intervention Administered online for grades 2+ Total administration time 20-30 minutes Progress monitoring—as frequently as weekly Brief, timed CBM measures; “part 1” of the screening 20 alternative forms per subject and grade level

original aimsweb assessments Common Core State Standards Area Measure Time BBS Paper Grade K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-12 F W S Print Concepts Letter Naming 1 min x   Phonological Awareness Phonemic Segmentation Phonics Letter Sounds Word Recognition & Fluency Nonsense Words  x Language: Vocabulary Acquisition & Use Comprehension & Fluency MAZE 3 min x  Oral Reading 1-3 min Screening admin time 2-4 min 2-3 min Progress monitoring admin time 1-4 min So when you line these assessments up to the Common Core domains for reading, there are gaps.

aimswebPlus assessments Common Core State Standards Area Measure Time BBS OSA Grade K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-12 F W S Print Concepts 2 min x Letter Naming 1 min   Phonological Awareness Initial Sounds Phoneme Segmentation Phonics Letter/Word Sounds Word Recognition & Fluency High Frequency Words Language: Vocabulary Acquisition & Use Auditory Vocabulary 5 min Vocabulary Comprehension & Fluency Passage Comprehension 20 min Comprehension Fluency Oral Reading 1-3 min Screening admin time 9-10 min 8-11 min 28 min 30 min Progress monitoring admin time 1-5 min Here are the new aimswebPlus reading measures. We’ve added new measures for print concepts, phonics, vocabulary. Nonsense word fluency has been replaced with High Frequency words, a more authentic measure better aligned with CC. Oral reading has been revised in first grade, to include highly decodable words at the beginning of the passages, giving it a low enough floor to be used as a fall to spring measure of growth in first grade. We have replaced MAZE with two new measures for reading comprehension: Passage comprehension is an untimed assessment, given only at screening/benchmarking. Comprehension fluency is an innovative assessment of silent reading efficiency, which can also be used for progress monitoring. All assessments—except oral reading, are taken by the student online at grades 2 and up—no more paper and pencil or handscoring.

aimswebPlus Early Literacy I’d like to give you a brief overview of a new aimsweb assessments series under development, which we are called aimswebPlus. The original aimsweb will still be available. aimswebPlus will be a new subscription option, using the same new aimsweb system. So what is aimswebPlus?   aimswebPlus is a new suite of assessments for grades K-12, that preserve all the benefits of the original aimsweb, but improves or replaces some of the original measures, adds a new layer of diagnostic assessment to screening/benchmark that is aligned to Common Core, and makes testing more convenient: for grades 2 and the student takes the assessment online, with the exception of oral fluency.

easier to administer and score. Phoneme Segmentation Revised The teachers says a word. The student says the individual phonemes, or sounds, of the word in the correct order. Words chosen based on CCSS requirements Untimed easier to administer and score.

aimswebPlus Reading I’d like to give you a brief overview of a new aimsweb assessments series under development, which we are called aimswebPlus. The original aimsweb will still be available. aimswebPlus will be a new subscription option, using the same new aimsweb system. So what is aimswebPlus?   aimswebPlus is a new suite of assessments for grades K-12, that preserve all the benefits of the original aimsweb, but improves or replaces some of the original measures, adds a new layer of diagnostic assessment to screening/benchmark that is aligned to Common Core, and makes testing more convenient: for grades 2 and the student takes the assessment online, with the exception of oral fluency.

Passage Comprehension Comprehension content and questions were designed to: measure understanding of informational and literary text meet a range of CCSS expectations assess essential literal/recall and higher-level inferential questions about text on grade level The passages Informational Text – 50% Literary Text – 50% All questions reflect CCSS Vocabulary in context Leveled using Pearson’s Reading Maturity Metric

Comprehension Fluency New New attempt to assess comprehension-based silent reading rate in an ecologically valid and psychometrically sound way Objectives for the Comprehension Fluency test: Force the student to try to understand the gist of realistic text as he or she reads. Use very easy comprehension questions Purpose of the test is not to measure ability to comprehend Purpose of the questions is to make the student pay attention Student doesn’t know what the question will be about, so he/she has to try to understand the entire text Computer-administered Correlate well with unspeeded reading comprehension Sensitive to growth (like Oral Reading) demo

original aimsweb assessments Common Core State Standards Area Measure Time BBS Paper Grade K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-12 F W S Counting & cardinality Oral Counting 1 min x Number awareness Number Identification   Number sense Quantity Discrimination Missing Number Computation M-COMP 8 min Problem solving M-CAP 8-10 min Screening admin time 4 min 12 min 16 min 18 min Progress monitoring admin time 1-4 min 1-8 min 8-16 min 8-18 min We can associate these measures with the common core standards, but there are gaps that aren’t readily apparent.

aimswebPlus assessments Common Core State Standards Area Measure Time BBS OSA Grade K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-12 F W S Counting & cardinality Quantity Total 1 min x   Quantity Match Number awareness Number ID Number sense Number Comparison Number Triads 3 min x  Computation Math Facts Mental Computation 4 min Problem solving (3-5 items per CCSS domain) Concepts & Applications 10 min 20 min Screening admin time 14-16 min 13 min 28 min Progress monitoring admin time 1-2 min 1-2 min 3-7 min Here are the new aimswebPlus math measures. Let’s start with early numeracy. We’ve replaced oral counting with two new, brief measures that align with Common Core expectations and are robust indicators of math ability. Number ID has been revised to improve CC alignment. Quantity Discrimination is revised and renamed as Number Comparison, which now has CC alignment and greater sensitivity to growth. We’ve added a more sophisticated number comparison measure, Number Triads, for grades 2 and up. We’ve also added Mental Computation and Math Facts to early numeracy to align with CC expectations.

aimswebPlus Math

aimswebPlus Early Numeracy Early Numeracy PM measures Kindergarten: Emphasis on quantity and cardinality Number Naming – thru 20 Quantity Total Quantity Match (W, S only) Grade 1: emphasis on addition/subtraction facts Number Comparison Math Facts Mental Computation (W, S only)

aimswebPlus Math Concepts & Applications K through Grade 8 Measures concept knowledge and problem solving skills Items written to assess Common Core State Standards Grades 2 – 8: Online testing; 30 multiple-choice items per form K & 1: individual administration with paper or tablet/handheld digital record form; 25 items per grade; Multiple Choice & short response 3 forms (Fall, Winter, Spring) per grade Vertically scaled in grades 2 – 8 Total score is designed to provide an estimate of math achievement and to contribute to the prediction of student performance on the end-of-year state tests

Configuration & Scores Concepts & Applications aimswebPlus math Configuration & Scores Concepts & Applications Number Triads Mental Computation Configuration Grades 2 - 8 Administration Online Purpose Screen/benchmark Screen/benchmark & Progress monitor Items 30 40 42 Forms per grade 3 20 Testing time 20 minutes 3 minutes 4 minutes Scores Raw  Percentile Composite + ROI & Student Growth %tile Maybe Strengths & Weaknesses Grade equivalency Vertical scale score

aimswebPlus Math Grade Common Core Area and Domain 2 3 4 5 6 7 8-12 F W S Algebra Operations & Algebraic Thinking 12 11 8 10 1 Expressions & Equations 16 14 13 Functions Number Number & Operations in Base 10 9 Number & Operations—Fractions The Number System Ratios and Proportional Relationships Data Measurement & Data Statistics & Probability Geometry Non Common Core items Total 30 29 31

aimswebPlus Number Triads Topic Item count by grade 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 digit comparisons 17 3 digit comparisons 23 10 4 digit comparisons 12 20 15 5 digit comparisons Fractions <1 with 0 and 1 as anchors Fractions <1 with 0 and a fraction as anchors Fractions of form (x/100) to decimals Fractions of form x/10 to fractions with denominators of multiples of 10 14 Decimals Negatives Scientific notation Squares

aimswebPlus Mental Computation Topic Grade(s) Add and subtract 2 digit multiples of 10 2 Add and subtract 2 digit multiples of 100 Add/subtract a 2 digit to/from a 3 digit Add 3 digit and a 4 digit 3 Subtract 3 digits from 3-digit/4-digit numbers Multiply 1 digit x 2 digit multiple of 10 Multiply 1 digit x 3 digit multiple of 10 Multiply 2 digit x 2 digit, both multiples of 10 4 Multiply 3 digit x 2 digit, both multiples of 10 Divide 3 digit (multiple of 10) by 1 digit Add/subtract 4 digit and 5 digit numbers 4 - 5 Multiply and divide multiples of 10 5 - 6 Add and subtract fractions with like denominators Order of operations 5 - 7 Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators 5 - 8 Multiply decimal (tenths) by whole number or decimal (tenths) 6 - 8 Whole number divided by a fraction 7 - 8 Solve for y Add/subtract with negative numbers 8

aimswebPlus K-1, Concepts & Applications Common Core Area Grade K 1 Fall Winter Spring Number of items per domain per form Counting & Cardinality 7 6 Operations & Algebraic Thinking 9 10 8 12 Number & Operations in Base Ten 5 Measurement & Data 4 Geometry 3 Total items per form 25

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