Can I give my high school students (9th-12th graders) your assessments and are they appropriate for them?

The easyCBM system includes assessments aligned to content and performance standards in grades K-8. Some high schools also use the tests for their at-risk students, but it’s important to remember that schools administering the easyCBM assessments to students in grades 9 or above should use the progress monitoring rather than any Benchmark assessments (Deluxe version only).

Our Lite version does not have many measures for grades 6-8, but the Deluxe version has not only more numbers of measures but also more types of measures, especially for the upper grades we tests.

Although we don’t have a single test you can have a student take to determine the grade-level performance, there is a process you can use to help determine their skill and the most appropriate grade level assessments to use to monitor their progress.

The easyCBM assessments are built on a scale of progressive difficulty, with each grade level becoming more challenging, and each measure type within a grade level also ‘stair-stepping’ up in difficulty. For example, with a sixth-grade student, in the Deluxe version, a teacher has the following tests to select from: Proficient Reading (which provides information about that student’s skill in literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension), Basic Reading (which provides information about that students’ skill in literal comprehension of both informational and literary text), Vocabulary (which provides information about the student’s ability to make sense of words and phrases used in context), and Passage Reading Fluency (which provides information about the student’s ability to read aloud narrative text with accuracy).