"CURRICULUM BASED MEASUREMENT The computer program assessment package is called "Monitoring Basic Skills Progress" (MBSP) available from Pro-Ed http://www.proedinc.com/store/840.html Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:57:49 -0800 To: "ClearingHouse" From: Don Crawford Subject: [education-consumers] Curriculum-based measurement Send reply to: Don Crawford ===================================================================== At 11:38 PM -0500 1/16/99, StanPruss@aol.com wrote: >My small district is starting the math curriculum review process. District 53 >in Oak Brook, Illinois, is a 500 student K-8 district with expenditures of >over $11,000/student. Could you give me more information on Doug and Lynn >Fuchs and the tests they have created in math? Thanks, Stan Pruss, board of >education member The computer program assessment package is called "Monitoring Basic Skills Progress" (MBSP) available from Pro-Ed http://www.proedinc.com/store/840.html . Purchase of the program includes a site license for unlimited number of computers. "Basic Reading monitors student progress in the area of reading and automatically conducts curriculum-based measurement. With Basic Reading, students work at a computer to take multiple-choice cloze tests on instructional-level reading passages. The computer generates alternate forms of the tests, administers the tests, and scores the student's performance during administration." "With Basic Math, Second Edition, students are tested at the computer, each time on a different alternate test that includes problem types to be taught during the school year. Basic Spelling assesses students' spelling proficiency by having them type in words to the computer from a year-long curriculum. For all programs, the computer generates, administers, and automatically scores the student's tests. It then shows the student test results and a graph of scores overtime. This graph can be displayed for the teacher, who also receives a superimposed performance analysis and remedial program recommendations. " Besides scoring the test the program plots each student's score against expected progress in the objectives (letting you know if the student is making adequate progress) as well as letting the teacher know what students need to learn which objectives and even suggesting instructional groupings that would be effective. A quick check of ERIC data base http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/ with the author name Fuchs and the key word curriculum-based_measurement will give you a large part of the research base for these materials. The Special Ed department at your nearest teacher-training institution will undoubtedly turn up someone who is knowledgeable in this area who could help with implementation. P.S. $11,000 per child! Holy cow! With that amount being spent per student they should all be exiting school with incredible outcomes. With all the money expended somebody should gladly take a class of 8 or 10 randomly chosen first graders and guarantee they would always average in the top half of any test. ****************** Don Crawford, Ph.D. donc@wce.wwu.edu http://www.wce.wwu.edu/depts/Sped/donc.html (360) 650-4992 Fax:650-7516 Western Washington Univ. Spec. Ed. -Mailstop 9090 Bellingham, WA 98225-9090 I am responsible for the content of this message, which does not in any way reflect the position or policy of Western Washington University. ****************** The essence of individualism derives not from accumulating idiosyncratic affectations, but from stripping those affectations away. ===================================================================== EDUCATION CONSUMERS CLEARINGHOUSE networking and information for parents and taxpayers on the internet Subscriptions & Archives: http://education-consumers.com or You are currently subscribed to education-consumers as: arthurhu@halcyon.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a blank email to leave-education-consumers-989462S@lists.dundee.net ===================================================================== For less mail, click on the following link and choose 1) a daily digest, 2) a daily list of subjects, or 3) no mail (read postings on Web) http://lists.dundee.net/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=education-consumers For more help & info: http://www.lyris.com/help or