Can I use easyCBM with high school students?

Yes you can, but only the progress monitoring measures will be available for testing.

There is no off-grade benchmark testing of students. Benchmark test are only administered on-grade by the program, not the teacher, as they are aligned to content and performance standards for students in their actual grade in school below the 9th grade level.

Benchmark tests are just screeners that indicate if a student is performing on-grade or not. They do not tell you which grade a student is functioning at, that is what progress monitoring tests do. Since you are testing students above 8th grade, you already know they are not performing on their actual grade in school so these tests will not offer you any helpful information or flexibility of testing.

While benchmark testing won't work for high school students, we do recommend administering the progress monitoring measures which can be assigned off-grade by the teacher. How to begin would be to group students by what grade tests you'd like to give. If several students will be taking the same grade/type of test, create a group and activate all of those students in that group. If you have just one student to test individually, create a group and give it the student's name, then activate just that student in that group. Once groups are assigned and activated, you can start the process of administering tests to help determine which grade and/or skill level your students are functioning at.

While we don’t have a single test you can give students to determine their grade-level performance, there is a process you can use to help find the most appropriate grade level assessments. For detailed information on progress monitoring and how to select the best test for your students, consult the Help Desk topic: Which grade progress monitoring test do I give? For additional information, click the link: easyCBM User's Manual and go to page 9 (Progress Monitoring Measures).