easyCBM Assessments

easyCBM is set-up as a tool to test a student's knowledge in a given area and help determine if there are areas of weakness where further assistance is needed. The recommended starting assessment is called a "Benchmark Assessment". Benchmarks assessments act as an initial screener test to help the teacher find out of the student is "On-Grade" or not.

Administering a Benchmark Assessment to students at the beginning of each season is the recommended assessment to start with to determine a student's knowledge base in reading and/or math. After the assessment is finished, the Benchmark score will be populated onto a graph with corresponding percentile lines. A student is considered on-grade when they are performing at the 50th percentile. Those students functioning above the 50th percentile should only be tested 3- times a year at the beginning of each season (Fall, Winter, Spring).

For detailed info regarding Benchmark Assessments, please see: Benchmark Assessments

For students performing below the 50th percentile, an intervention will be recommended in the Benchmark Risk Analysis table. Once the decided intervention/practice time has been decided upon, the next assessment to utilize are the Progress Monitoring Measures. These measures are used to assess the student periodically during the intervention period to verify if the intervention exercises are having a positive impact on the students skill level in the particular subject.  We suggest along with progress monitoring, teachers give guided instruction during intervention exercises in order to help build and reinforce a student's knowledge base.

For detailed info regarding Progress Monitoring Measures, please see: Progress Monitoring Measures

Testing FAQ's

Taking the same test a second time

The easyCBM system only lets a student take a test once because the retaking of a test will likely give an artificially-inflated score due to familiarity with the material. This is likely to result in a higher score that is based more on practice than on actual improvement in knowledge and skill. If a student needs to retake assessments from the year prior, the Deluxe Edition of easyCBM offers an archive feature that will save the student's assessment data that can still be viewed in the reports sections while opening the test to be retaken.

For detailed info regarding archiving a student's data, please see: Archive Student Assessments

Can a student take a break during a test?

When taking a test a student can start, leave, and even come back and finish an online test later. Once a student logs back on, the test will pick up where the student left off.