Process Monitering

A new assessment that I have never heard of was Brigance inventories. This is an assessment for geared to provide an in depth comprehensive reading assessment. This is useful also for special education students who need a specific objective for their IEPs. Brigance assessments can create a graph to make intra-individual comparisons to chart there progress. It is useful in process monitoring that the student visually see a graph with an element of a slope to show the level of performance. For effective process monitoring assessments should be easily available. AIMSweb is an another computer based assessment to measure reading fluency, comprehension, early literacy skills, Spanish literacy skills, early numeracy skills, mathematical computation, spelling and written expression. This is a tracking service that is proactive. This program costs money for each student, and can be tracked weekly. This would come in handy in my school because they want to see "researched based assessments" and tracking through evidence. I'm sure this is pretty expensive too. The DIBLES (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills provides a prereading and reading skills assessment of kids from K- 6th grade. The NRP uses 7 different domains to measure reading. This program has short assessments and is low cost. There is debate over this program because DIBLES is based on a timed test. Now a days there is also computerized assessments. One of the most common program is the STAR Reading. This measures vocabulary and comprehension. This includes narratives of the students strengths and weaknesses. Another computerized assessment is DORA, Diagnostive Online reading assessment system. This program generates a report and gives recommendations. Sounds to EASY!!! At my school we have the Lexile program. I know we have it, but we have not been trained how to read the data's output. What is the point of that . In the book it says that it has a built in intervention program that can read through the student's knowledge. The lexilies have provided the students with support. Teachers need to be trained on all their school's assessments they decide to buy into. Especially how to read the data.