Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?

[Barbara Underdown]

This is our first year using AIMSWeb at the middle school.  It is helping us 
to identify students who may need an intervention....but we use additional 
data to make those decisions.  We have made errors with student placements 
into interventions, but it is a starting point.  All students get the MAZE 
three times per year.  Students who score in the bottom 25% get a CBM.  Then 
we look at their CBMs and other data to decide further action.

The jury is still out as far as whether or not it has been useful.  I feel 
that perhaps we could be doing the same thing by more closely analyzing the 
data we already have.  Our students are tested to death...MAPS 3 times per 
year, ISAT, and AIMSweb 3 times per year.  TOO MUCH!

Barb

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:20:36 -0600
 reading <readingwritingliter...@gmail.com> wrote:
We use it at the middle school level. I find it's not especially useful for
this age group/reading development. I feel where most of our kids struggle
is with critical thinking - something that the maze and fluency piece don't
measure. I feel that some of our kids who are identified at first, "learn"
how to do these probes but not necessarily how to "read" better. Does this
make sense? Does anyone else use it at the middle school level? Or do you
use something else?
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Barb Underdown
Literacy Staff Developer
Mannheim Middle School
Melrose Park, IL  60164
847-455-5020

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