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Creating Curriculum-Based Measurement Probes & Progress Monitoring Graphs

I became aware of an excellent web page, designed by Jim Wright, a Syracuse, New York School Psychologist.  Go to his site, "Intervention Central," for some extremely useful tools that will help you build CBM probes for possible systems/norming use and also for student progress monitoring.  Some of the great tools available on this site include:

 

New!! CBM Warehouse is the site to go for great resources including ready to download reading and math probes ranging K-High School at no cost.  Some reading probe sets are from Minneapolis Public Schools.

OKAP Reading Probe Generator - This tool allows you to enter or paste in text to create fluency probes.  It will do readability testing, and produce clean examiner copies and student copies that are numbered.  At the bottom of this tool, there are also links to online sources of books and text that can be copied and pasted into the generator to develop probes.  For example, I went to one of the links, found "Tom Sawyer" and quickly created a numbered student probe and examiner copy with text from this novel, complete with a readability analysis.  This could be a huge time saver for districts.

Curriculum Based Assessment "List Builder" - This tool allows you to quickly develop probes to assess number and letter recognition and also to create probe lists of dolch words targeted at varied grade levels through grade three.

Curriculum Based Assessment Math Computation Probe Generator - This tool allows you to select operations and produce computation probes targeting single skills or mixed skills.

"ChartDog" - Create CBM Progress-Monitoring Graphs on the Internet - This tool allows you to quickly enter data and create graphs.  You may chart up to two sets of data, group data into intervention phases, compute trend lines, means, effect sizes, etc.  "ChartDog" graphs are dynamically generated images, so you can print them off, save them to you hard drive or e-mail them as attachments.

In addition to the above three tools, "Intervention Central" is also full of other useful downloads that focus on intervention ideas for behavior and academic issues.