What are the different Classworks Progress Monitoring types available to assign to my students?

Classworks uses the Curriculum-Based-Measurement (CBM) approach to progress monitoring and offers you the ability to choose between two options for each of your students.

Both of these approaches are based on rigorous research and meet the National Council for Intensive Intervention (NCII) standards for monitoring and adapting academic interventions.

The Structure and Design of the Tests

Curriculum Sampling Progress Monitoring

Classworks Curriculum Sampling CBM probes include 20 parallel forms for students performing at grade levels K-8.

These can be given weekly in your MTSS or RtI program to monitor progress on the full scope of grade-level expectations throughout the intervention period. The probes are brief (15 items for grade K, 20 items for grade 1, 25 items for grades 2-4, and 30 items for grades 5-8) and are given online for immediate and automatic scoring and reporting. The results are reported as a scaled score - the same scale as our Universal Screener.

Domain-Based Progress Monitoring

This approach to progress monitoring focuses on specific essential skills and their related objectives and provides more granular information to pinpoint and monitor specific gaps in a child’s understanding.

Just like the Curriculum Sampling approach, the student’s performance on each weekly probe directly informs their Individualized Learning intervention.

The teacher selects the specific strand or domain that aligns with the child’s academic goal and activates Domain-Based progress monitoring for that specific domain. As the student completes each weekly probe, they will interact with questions tied to specific objectives that correlate to essential standards. Teachers choosing this approach have in-depth insight into the child’s growth within the chosen domain over the course of the 12-week session.