easyCBM Teacher Edition vs. easyCBM District
The assessments on our system are what is known as CBMs (curriculum based measurement), standardized measures that sample from a year's worth of curriculum to assess the degree to which students have mastered the skills and knowledge deemed critical at each grade level.
Think of the percentile rank based scoring as a way to identify where a student is performing at to help determine if they are on par with student's in their same grade at a particular time of year. The goal is to have students performing on-grade at the 50th percentile. If they are, then no continued testing is needed except for giving either a benchmark test or an on-grade progress monitoring measures 3 times a year to see if they are staying on course with their peers or making improvement/growth (if they are not). The real benefit of this system comes in ascertaining those students that need more assistance to meet on-grade goals. With guided instruction and measured testing, low performers can receive they help they need and work toward improving their growth towards being on-grade.
The easyCBM program has two editions. Our Teacher Edition is intended for individual teachers and has a 200 student limit. Our District Edition is used as a district-wide application instead of individual teacher accounts. A comparison table between the two editions is included below.
easyCBM Teacher Edition (Deluxe and Lite). All newly created easyCBM Teacher accounts begin with a one-month free trial to easyCBM Deluxe. At the end of the trial, teachers can choose to upgrade to Deluxe ($49.99 annual fee). If they choose not to upgrade, the Deluxe features will be turned off and the account will become a limited Lite version (free).
- easyCBM Lite (easyCBM Lite Teachers Manual) only has progress monitoring assessments. The limited Lite Edition of easyCBM includes nine alternate test forms for each of three basic math domains per grade level. Each basic math form has 16 items that test many different problem types per grade.
- easyCBM Deluxe (easyCBM Teacher Deluxe Users Manual) includes an additional form for each of those grade level basic math domains as well as 13 additional more challenging proficient math forms per grade. The proficient math forms include 25 items in grades K-2 and 30 items in grades 3-5. The Teacher Deluxe account has a $49.99 annual fee. The Deluxe account includes both progress monitoring and benchmark assessments as well as additional measures and features. Both programs can be of benefit to a classroom teacher (Comparison Between Lite and Deluxe versions).
easyCBM District The District version allows for a school district to have all of their students in one account and assign different level of access to teachers and administrators. It has its own secure private URL address for client sign-in and usually has both a district contact and IT person in their district who manage the account with our partners at Riverside Insights providing guidance and support.
The District as a whole can view results summarized by school or classroom, as well as dig into the individual student results. Building level users (such as building principals and school psychologists) can view results compiled by grade level and broken down by classroom, etc. For teacher users, the system works the same as the Deluxe version, with one important exception — the District version enables multiple ‘teacher users’ to share students, such as might be needed when a student receives services from a general education teacher as well as a special education teacher or interventionist.
To find out about and/or sign up for a District account, please visit Riverside Insights for more information.
