What do the test or measure number in the title mean?

Assessments that have a season in their title (Vocabulary 3_Fall) are benchmark screening tests and those that end with an underscore and number (Vocabulary 4_1) are progress monitoring measures.

The first number of a measure indicates the grade. The second number is an arbitrary number and indicates nothing more than a way to distinguish one measure from another and to help keep track of which test forms a student has taken.

The numbering of the assessments does not represent their degree of difficulty; it’s just a way to keep track of the tests. So if a student took Passage Reading Fluency Measure 3_1, they will have taken the first form of this 3rd grade measure of oral reading fluency.Like all measures on easyCBM®, alternate forms of each test were designed to be of equivalent difficulty, so teachers can progress monitor students from the initial screening assessments, through their progress monitoring tests every month throughout the year, comparing progress to subsequent screening assessments (fall, winter, and spring).