Spanish Measures
The Spanish measures are part of the Deluxe version of easyCBM and are administered like any other progress monitoring or benchmark test. For math, there are Spanish translations and read aloud items for all grades. For reading, the measures available on easyCBM are as follows:
About easyCBM Spanish Measures
The Spanish measures were developed specifically to be appropriate for assessing students receiving literacy instruction in Spanish and are authentic Spanish literacy measures rather than translations of English measures. They represent unique measures developed and edited specifically by native Spanish speakers.
The easyCBM Spanish language measures (with the exception of the Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) measures are not simply translations of the easyCBM English language measures, but rather tested a variety of Spanish language early literacy measure types to determine which would be the most predictive of later reading proficiency and found that -- unlike in English language measures -- Letter Names, Letter Sounds, and Phoneme Segmenting did not predict later reading. However, Syllable Sounds and Syllable Segmenting did predict later reading (as did Spanish Word and Sentence Reading fluency). For the upper grades, we offer a Spanish language vocabulary assessment which -- by design -- is a test of students' reading comprehension as well as their vocabulary knowledge.
We also offer all our math tests in both English and Spanish language, with both English and Spanish audio read-aloud for all math items that require reading.
All the math measures are automatically available in Spanish or English language versions. For Spanish literacy measures, you'll have Spanish Syllable Segmenting, Spanish Syllable Sounds, Spanish Word Reading Fluency, and Spanish Sentence Reading Fluency (these last two are both Oral Reading Fluency measures) for the primary grades (K-2). In addition, for grades 2-8, you'll have access to Spanish vocabulary measures (which also assess reading comprehension due to the way they were designed).
For Progress Monitoring measures, you can access them under the Measures tab after you select a grade. Right below the selected grade is a list of available tests for students to take.
Spanish math tests can be found alongside their English counterpart, in a separate column, by scrolling down the page. For math, there are Spanish translations and read aloud items for all grades. So when you scroll down the Measures page, you will find all of the math items (Spanish and English) grouped together.
​Assign an online tests to a group of students and when they login to their portal, and choose their math test, when they start their test they can choose Spanish as their language which will show the text in Spanish. If they click on the sound button, the question will be read in Spanish.
Both progress monitoring and benchmark tests are embedded with the English.
Spanish literacy measures available for testing are Spanish Syllable Segmenting, Spanish Syllable Sounds, Spanish Word Reading Fluency, and Spanish Sentence Reading Fluency (these last two are both Oral Reading Fluency measures) for the primary grades (K-2).
In addition, for grades 2-8, you'll have access to Spanish vocabulary measures (which also assess reading comprehension due to the way they were designed).
For available Spanish reading tests, you must first click on the Spanish link under the Show: All section. You will then be directed to a different page.
Spanish measures can be turned on and off. If you have a Deluxe account, and do not see Spanish tests listed, please check your Enable Measures and Features setting.
Those measures grayed out are default measures and cannot be turned off. Those measures with a blue box with a check mark, are \measures that can be turned on and off by clicking/unclicking the blue box. For the change to take effect, please make sure to click on the Update Settings box below the list of measures.