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Wagle, Rhea; Dowdy, Erin; Furlong, Michael J.; Nylund-Gibson, Karen; Carter, Delwin; Hinton, Tameisha – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
Schools are an essential setting for mental health supports and services for students. To support student well-being, schools engage in universal mental health screening to identify students in need of support and to provide surveillance data for district-wide or state-wide policy changes. Mental health data have been collected via anonymous and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Screening Tests, Student Surveys, High School Students
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Conoyer, Sarah J.; Wagner, Kyle B.; Janssen, Kristen K.; Jewell, Jeremy D.; McKenney, Elizabeth L. W. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2023
As content literacy intervention is expanded in schools, data-based decision-making practices need to also advance, especially in the areas of science. Vocabulary-matching curriculum-based measures (VM-CBM) may allow educators to identify students needing additional support in science vocabulary to assist with using and comprehending disciplinary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Elementary School Science, Vocabulary, Benchmarking
Miller, Faith G.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Chafouleas, Sandra M.; Schardt, Alyssa A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of two different Direct Behavior Rating--Single Item Scale (DBR-SIS) formats on rating accuracy. A total of 119 undergraduate students participated in one of two study conditions, each utilizing a different DBR-SIS scale format: one that included percentage of time anchors on the DBR-SIS…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Test Format, Accuracy, Undergraduate Students
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Chaparro, Erin A.; Stoolmiller, Mike; Park, Yonghan; Baker, Scott K.; Basaraba, Deni; Fien, Hank; Smith, Jean L. Mercier – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
Progress monitoring has been adopted as an integral part of multi-tiered support systems. Oral reading fluency (ORF) is the most established assessment for progress-monitoring purposes. To generate valid trend lines or slopes, ORF passages must be of equivalent difficulty. Recently, however, evidence indicates that ORF passages are not equivalent,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Grade 2, Difficulty Level
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Ford, Jeremy W.; Conoyer, Sarah J.; Lembke, Erica S.; Smith, R. Alex; Hosp, John L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
In the present study, two types of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) tools in science, Vocabulary Matching (VM) and Statement Verification for Science (SV-S), a modified Sentence Verification Technique, were compared. Specifically, this study aimed to determine whether the format of information presented (i.e., SV-S vs. VM) produces differences…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Comparative Analysis