I'm not a classroom teacher, I'm a reading specialist. We use Everyday Math
and I know the 1st grade teachers I work with don't like the math portion of
the AIMS Web.
Generating reports is very easy but as others mentioned earlier, we already
have information about who needs help and who is doing okay. It's just 3
days per year I don't get to teach because I'm testing. Between
benchmarking 3 times per year and all the progress monitoring the teachers
have to do, there is less time for them to teach too. The poor students are
yet again tested. The poor things, in my opinion are already over tested.
After giving the AIMS Web, in my school anyway, we then pick interventions
that are "researched based" one size fits all programs. They may be
implemented by a teacher, a 5th grader, a HS student, a computer program or
just about anyone or anything they can get their hands on. Isn't that
grand!
Another thing that someone else mentioned, I'm noticing too. It seems like
the students who we see as doing well in the classroom don't necessarily do
well on the test and vice versa. Students who self-correct while reading or
think about meaning don't do as well because the timed reading portion is
all based on speed. Isn't that what we want students to do when they are
reading, read really fast and not think about what they are reading? (JK!)
Argh!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa McGilloway" <[email protected]>
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?
Thanks so much for the response about AIMS web. If you have a minute I have
a few other questions: Do you find it easy to use and generate reports? What
do you think of the comprehension piece (not sure what a comprehension
'maze' is?)? What about the Math portion? We use Everyday Math and I am
curious as to how it may correlate with that.
Thanks so much for any information you can share! Lisa
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Yingling <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Yingling <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 1:35 PM
We've been using AIMSWeb for 3 years now for at least K-5 (I think maybe
higher also). The fluency CBMs are just like DIBELS. Aimsweb also has a
comprehension maze test and a couple of math tests. It gives a lot of
reports as to how a student is doing based on class, school, etc... It's an
okay start as to identifying students for RTI services. I don't think you
should use it solely to place students into RTI intervention groups.
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