Response to Intervention and Instruction.
"Response to Instruction and Intervention is designed to empower educators to give every student the opportunity to meet high expectations and the support to reach them. This three-tiered system helps educators differentiate instruction as students need extra help. Tennessee schools are moving to this framework over the next several years." (from tncore.org)
Screening All Students.
In order to determine which students need to benefit from Tier 2 and Tier 3, all students in that grade level are screened for fundamental academic skills in Math and English Language Arts.
Progress Monitoring.
Students in Tier 2 undergo frequent progress monitoring. Progress monitoring lets the students and teachers know how progress is being made and which next steps might be taken. Progress monitoring is also an integral component of Tier 3.
Screening and Monitoring at Richland school.
All of our 5th-8th grade students take the following four tests to be screened for Response to Instruction and Intervention. In school-year 2015-2016, each 5th-8th grade student in Tier 2 and Tier 3 will be progress monitored using the test that addresses the specific skills being targeted through RTI.
English Language Arts.
R-CBM (fluency)
"Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R–CBM) is a brief, individually administered, standardized test of oral reading for grades 1 (winter) through 12. There are 23 test forms (probes) at Grade 1 and 33 grade-level forms for each grade from 2 through 8. ... R–CBM is designed to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. The probes also are to be used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk ..."
from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/r-cbm-admin_scoring-guide_2.0.pdf
Maze (comprehension)
"Maze is a multiple-choice cloze task that students complete while reading silently. The first sentence of a 150-400 word passage is left intact. Thereafter, every 7th word is replaced with three words inside parenthesis. Of course, one of the words is the exact one from the original passage. The two others are distractors. These distractors are not haphazerd. One of the distractors is near distractor, a word of the same "type" (e.g. noun, verb, adverb), that does not make sense or preserve meaning. The other distractor is a far distractor, a word not of the same type but a word that is selected randomly from the story that does not make sense."
from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/Maze-Manual.pdf
Math.
M-CAP
"Mathematics Concepts and Applications (M–CAP) is a brief, standardized test of elements of the typical math curriculum at grades 2 through 8 ... You can give M–CAP individually, in small groups, or in full-class settings. There are 33 different test forms (probes) for each grade. These probes are intended to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year, and then used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk."
from https://aimsweb.pearson.com/downloads/AIMSweb2.0/MCAP_UG.pdf
M-COMP
"Mathematics Computation (M–COMP) is a brief, standardized test of math operations that are part of the typical curriculum at Grades 1 through 8 ... You can give M–COMP individually, in small groups, or in full-class settings. There are 33 different test forms (probes) for each grade. These probes are intended to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year, and then used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk." from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/MCOMP_Admin_Scoring-Guide_2.01.pdf
English Language Arts.
R-CBM (fluency)
"Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R–CBM) is a brief, individually administered, standardized test of oral reading for grades 1 (winter) through 12. There are 23 test forms (probes) at Grade 1 and 33 grade-level forms for each grade from 2 through 8. ... R–CBM is designed to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. The probes also are to be used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk ..."
from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/r-cbm-admin_scoring-guide_2.0.pdf
Maze (comprehension)
"Maze is a multiple-choice cloze task that students complete while reading silently. The first sentence of a 150-400 word passage is left intact. Thereafter, every 7th word is replaced with three words inside parenthesis. Of course, one of the words is the exact one from the original passage. The two others are distractors. These distractors are not haphazerd. One of the distractors is near distractor, a word of the same "type" (e.g. noun, verb, adverb), that does not make sense or preserve meaning. The other distractor is a far distractor, a word not of the same type but a word that is selected randomly from the story that does not make sense."
from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/Maze-Manual.pdf
Math.
M-CAP
"Mathematics Concepts and Applications (M–CAP) is a brief, standardized test of elements of the typical math curriculum at grades 2 through 8 ... You can give M–CAP individually, in small groups, or in full-class settings. There are 33 different test forms (probes) for each grade. These probes are intended to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year, and then used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk."
from https://aimsweb.pearson.com/downloads/AIMSweb2.0/MCAP_UG.pdf
M-COMP
"Mathematics Computation (M–COMP) is a brief, standardized test of math operations that are part of the typical curriculum at Grades 1 through 8 ... You can give M–COMP individually, in small groups, or in full-class settings. There are 33 different test forms (probes) for each grade. These probes are intended to be used in the universal screening of all students at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year, and then used for frequent progress monitoring of students identified as at risk." from http://www.aimsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/MCOMP_Admin_Scoring-Guide_2.01.pdf