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What is AIMSweb and how can it be used?

 
Benchmark — Grade-Level Screening and Progress Monitoring

Designed to inform instruction and improve education achievement. Benchmarks consist of standardized CBM assessment probes, training materials, and a web-based data management tool providing administrators, school psychologists, teachers, special education teachers, curriculum specialists, and parents with powerful reports about students’ current skills and their progress throughout the year.

Benchmarks are established three times per year for all students using grade level assessment probes. Reports identify students at-risk, help individualize instruction, evaluate student progress, and serve as an accountability and communication tool for system improvement.

• Identify Early – Identify students not making progress quickly and accurately
• Inform Instruction – Modify instruction and evaluate effects of program changes
• Monitor Progress – Monitor progress and visually display improvement/effects of instructional methods
• Report AYP – Demonstrate student, school, and district improvement over time
• Compare Progress – Make comparison at the student, class, grade, school, and district levels
• Report by Risk Groups – Compare improvement by NCLB risk categories: service, ethnicity, poverty, and/or ELL

Benchmark Scores for 2003-2004 School Year—Reading (Student)

 
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Progress Monitor — Intensive Monitoring of Individual Goals

A continuous assessment and improvement evaluation system designed specifically for frequent assessment and monitoring of students at-risk, struggling learners, or those with learning disabilities. The system consists of standardized one-minute CBM assessment probes for weekly evaluation, training material, and a web-based charting and reporting application. Reports evaluate student progress, prescribe the need for program changes, document the effects of interventions, and serve as an accountability and communication tool enabling data-driven decision making based on assessment results.

• Chart and report frequent assessment results to demonstrate improvement and enable evidence-based evaluation
• Use decision rules to determine satisfactory progress or the need for IEP revision
• Generate and print professional reports for periodic and annual reviews
• Display Survey-Level Assessment data for use in writing criterion for success
• Translate annual IEP goals into expected rates of progress (Aim Lines) automatically

 
AIMSweb RTI: The Standard Process Protocol Solution
Ensuring Fidelity through Standard Problem-Solving Tasks and Scientifically Based Progress Monitoring

Changes in IDEA legislation are now finalized and allow Local Education Agencies some additional latitude to incorporate RTI in the process to identify children with special needs. The question for many practitioners is “How can we do this in a way that is accurate, efficient, and accountable?”

The answer is AIMSweb. AIMSweb offers a solution for implementing RTI as a data-drive component of the special services eligibility process. It is designed to provide schools and school psychologists with evidence-based assessment tools to evaluate the student’s response to intervention in the basic skills, such as reading and math – both on grade level and below grade level.

1. Assess skills directly, frequently, and continuously using proven CBM tools
2. Compare expected or targeted rates of progress to actual rates of progress using our RtI Progress Monitor
3. Plan, intervene, and document using the Case Manager interface

Call us at (866) 313-6194 for more information or a demonstration.

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