We have bagun to use the aimsweb probes . The process is exactly the same
and all your info can be put into the Dibles sites for tracking but the
probes are much better!
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Dibbels Assessments
> Our district uses DIBELS also. Students are tested at grade level (ex: all
> my 3rd graders, regardless of their ability level, read the same 3 third
> grade
> passages for the benchmarks). I have a real problem with the leveling of
> the
> passages. It seems to me that if you are assessing fluency in a beginning
> of
> the year 3rd grader, the passage should be leveled at beginning third.
> But
> the way DIBELS is set up, all three passages are at different levels-easy
> (supposedly), middle, and hard. If you go to the University of Oregon
> website or
> to the DIBELS home page, there is a listing of technical papers. In one
> of
> them, the are tables of each passage of each grade level that give the
> levels of
> all passages- benchmark and progress monitoring. They've used the Spache
> leveling, which leveled all of them lower that any of the other leveling
> programs. There is a huge difference between the programs on the same
> passages.
>
> For this and a few other reasons, I don't put a lot of stock in DIBEls.
>
> Cheryle
> New Mexico
>
>
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