Connecting the Dots The DIBELS Assessment Suite Helen Long National Educational Consultant Today s Goals DIBELS Next DIBELS Survey DIBELS Deep Choosing Curriculum What is DIBELS Next? Monitor progress/adjust instruction Professional Development Identify Struggling students Dr. Roland Good Ph.D Assoc. Professor of School Psychology, University of Oregon Dr. Ruth Kaminski Ph.D Director of Research and Development for DMG Planning and implementing intervention Determine the grade level Identify the Support 1
Progress Monitoring Track student performance Frequent ongoing measurement Instructional level Comprehensive Assessment System Instructional DiagnS 2 BENCHMARK 1 reading level/ pecific Diagnose Needs Measur e Identify Growth/ the need for Evaluat Support e Interven tion What s it like to Struggle? The Life of a Struggling Reader Survey Materials There is no comprehension strategy owerful enough to compensate for e inability to read the words Dr. Joseph Torgesen The manual Assessor Directions and Student Materials Scoring Booklet 2
What the purpose of Survey? When to Conduct Survey Identify a student s instructional level Guidelines DIBELS Composite Score Below cut point for risk (well below benchmark level) Determine the level of progress monitoring Guidelines DIBELS Next Survey DORF BOTH Words Correct & Accuracy scores are Below Benchmark EITHER or BOTH Words Correct & Accuracy are Well Below Benchmark Words Correct falls below OPTIMAL Set ambitious goals Make instructional decisions to accelerate student progress Rules Rules NWF PSF Both NWF CLS & NWF WWR are Below Benchmark or Well Below Benchmark PSF scores are at the Well Below Benchmark Begin with FSF Student Skill Levels Mastery Level Instructional level Progress Monitoring Level The highest level of demonstrated skills at or above benchmark. One grade above the mastery level. Progress toward the goal. May be the same as the instructional level. DORF Grade Level Name: Ian Grade 4 StudentID: 447352 School Year 2011-12 Teacher: Ms. Scott School : Glenoaks 33 14 15 1 42 8 20 2 32 16 17 1 70% 40 17 10 1 40 9 19 1 42 8 20 2 82% 42 4 26 2 52 3 26 2 91% 41 7 20 1 54 6 25 2 57 3 33 3 61 2 35 3 95% Establish: Mastery Level first grade Instructional Level second grade Progress Monitoring Level second grade 3
Appropriate Goal 2 Slope of Progress = 3 words per week Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April May Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May 45 42 40 40 44 40 40 Glenoaks 2. 2738 2011-12 Mrs. Scott Ia n 4th grade. Ian s mid-year goal 87 words correct 97% accuracy Ian s initial performance 42 words correct 91% accuracy Comprehensive Assessment System Instructional DiagnS 2 BENCHMARK 1 reading level/ pecific Diagnose Needs Measur e Identify Growth/ the need for Evaluat Support e Interven 3 tion PROGRESS MONITORING DIBELS Deep Diagnostic Rigorously Researched Materials Focused on Phonemic Awareness and Word Reading and Decoding aligned with the CCST correlated to DIBELS Next can be used with any screener DIBELS Deep Diagnostic Data Educators Can Use to Make the Best Instructional Decisions Critical questions to target instruction: What types of support? How should students be grouped? What specific skills? What Instructional strategies? 4
Deep Procedures: Individually administered NOT timed Directions are standardized 10 minutes Prompts & teaching strategies minutes Instructional language Discontinue rules 24 Materials Assessment Manual Phonemic Awareness (PA) PA score sheets Word Reading & Decoding (WRD) WRD quick Screen score sheets WRD score sheets forms 1-5 24 2 Assessments Phonemic Awareness (PA) Blending Segmenting Word Reading & Decoding WRD Quick Screen WRD forms 1-5 24 Routing: to determine starting point Quick Screen: To determine starting point 5
RWD Quick Screen Use discontinue rule 5 consecutive missed items STOP Administer entire WRD Quick Screen N N N N N Entry Points Based on Deep Quick Screen Case Study Jordan Grade 6 Tested Below benchmark DORF 6
Case Study Jordan: Grade 6 87 Words Correct 86% Accuracy 31 Retell Survey Jordan: Grade 6 Mastery Level: 3rd Grade DORF Progress Monitoring 4th Grade DORF Jordan: Grade 6 Quick Screen Deep Contractions Quick Screen r-controlled vowels VCe and VCVe words with qu Hard and soft c Hard and soft g Compound words double consonants words with y Consonant digraph Quick Screen Jordan would benefit from: Form 3 Section: B, C, D, E, G, H Form 4 Section: C, D, E, N, O 7
Quick Screen Contractions Hard and soft c words with qu Casey: 3rd Grade Casey: 3rd grade Analysis Form 5 Score Sheet Analysis Form 5 Score Summary Course of action? Your recommendations? Reading and The Brain Monitor progress/adjust instruction Planning and implementing intervention Professional Development Identify the Support Identify Struggling students Determine the grade level Proust and the Squid Dr. Maryanne Wolf is a professor at Tufts University and director of the Center for Reading and Language Research. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and research. Her research has been in the area of neurological under pinnings of reading, language, and learning disabilities with an emphasis on Dyslexia. 8
Everything Matters Spelling System of sounds Orthographic Processes Phonological Processes Semantic Processes Word Meanings ELL? Syntactic Processes Grammar/P arts of Speech Supports Literacy in DISTRICT the Content Areas PRES TITLE Supports Common Core Morphological Processes Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots The REWARDS Strategy 6-Step Strategy to Break Down Complex Words 1.Circle the prefixes 2.Circle the suffixes Underline the vowels Say the parts of the word. Say the whole word. Make it into a real word. The REWARDS Strategy: 6 Steps In Action suddenness Why does this work? Requires students to pay attention to the word (as opposed to skipping it or guessing) expansion Breaks words into manageable chunks (increasing student s ability to recognize patterns) transportation Helps students pronounce words correctly (increasing ability to recognize the word) expansion infection construction 9
Transform Students To Readers With... REWARDS! Strategies and skills Easy to implement Improves vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension aligns with CCSS supports ELL supports the content area: Science, Soc. St. & History 38 [Confidential] Dr. Louisa Moats, Ed.D. Expert Guru Author Leader Researcher Proven Literacy Intervention: 1st through 5th grade Graduate School Faculty Teacher 39 [Confidential] 10
Professional Development Monitor progress/adjust instruction Identify Struggling students Planning and implementing intervention Determine the grade level Identify the Support 11