On-Grade Testing

The easyCBM system is designed for benchmark assessments to be given at a students' actual grade level (progress monitoring measures can be used off grade level). The benchmark assessments are for students designated in grades K-8th grade. Only on-grade benchmark tests are accessible for students to take.

Benchmark tests are actually screeners and are given to students at their grade level to see where they are academically compared to students in their own grade, at a particular time of year. If you already know that a student is not performing at their grade level then the progress monitoring measures should be implemented instead.

While we don't have one test or screener you can give a student that will pinpoint exactly where they should start, we do have tools you can work with to help determine and then work to improve their skill level in both reading and math. The goal of the program is to help students work towards being able to function at their grade level in the 50th percentile range.

To help determine what grade level tests to administer depends to a great extent on what information you already have on a student. For instance if you have a 4th grade student, and you know they are functioning below the 4th grade level, perhaps start testing them at the third grade level and go up or down in grades and/or skill levels depending upon the results you get from their testing. To compare test scores with students in the various grades levels you can refer to the Progress Monitor Scoring Guidelines". This should give you a ballpark idea where their skills vs. grade level lies. You will have to play around with various tests but eventually you will be able to determine where their skill and grade level aptitude are. For a student not functioning at their grade level, you can assess them at different grades but the goal will always be to get them back on their expected grade level as soon as possible and at the 50th percentile.