Screening

Screening is an assessment procedure that is:

• Brief
• Efficient
• Repeatable

Focused on age-appropriate academic skills (e.g., identifying letters, reading high-frequency wordsor behaviors)

To identify students who are “at-risk” for academic failure or social-emotional concerns.
To determine which students may need:

• Closer monitoring
• Further assessment
• Supplemental instruction

Progress monitoring is the practice of assessing student performance using assessments on a repeated basis to determine how well a student is responding to instruction. Data obtained from progress monitoring can:

• Determine a student’s rate of progress
• Provide information on the effectiveness of instruction and whether to modify the intervention, and
• Identify the need for further or additional information.

Progress monitoring data is also used to determine a student’s movement through the tiers. The intensity of instruction/intervention will determine the frequency of progress monitoring.

​​​​​​Limitations of Screening & Progress Monitoring Tools:

• Sometimes diagnostics provide enough information to guide instruction.
• More often, offer only quick snapshots of student performance.
• Diagnostics do not usually provide in-depth insight into student abilities.

Purpose of Diagnostic Assessments:

• Offer detailed information about individual student skills.
• Help educators determine:
  • What to teach
  • How to teach

Diagnostics are typically used for:

• Students significantly behind established benchmarks.
• Students not making adequate progress despite intervention.

PA (Phonological and Phonemic Awareness): Assessment: PAST Assessment Kilpatrick

• Kilpatrick One Minute Activities
• Heggerty - Primary Curriculum (PreK-2)
• Heggerty - Extension (3rd-5th Grade)

Decoding: Assessments: QPS, WADE (Both Reading and Spelling Sample)

• Wilson Fundations
• Wilson Reading
• Road to Reading

Encoding: Assessments: WADE (Spelling and Writing Sample), Words Their Way Spelling Inventory

• Wilson Fundations
• Wilson Just Words 
• Word Connections
• Words Their Way 

Fluency: Assessments: STAR Reading CBM (ORF) 

• Wilson Fluency Practice/Just Words 
• Fluency Strategies with Passages 
• Morphology Instruction (Words Their Way) 

Vocabulary/Comprehension: Assessments: STAR Reading, Writing Sample

• Text Sets
• Strategy Instruction with Texts
• Morphology Instruction (Words Their Way)

Implementing an intervention generally follows the Problem Solving Cycle:

• Identify
• Analyze
• Implement
• Reflect

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