What are the Universal Screener Assessment Scaled Score Targets?

Overview

The scaled score targets are the readiness levels for each grade level throughout the year.

• Classworks Universal Screeners are scored on a common vertical scale
• Classworks Universal Screener assessments provide parallel forms to allow comparability of scores over time and to allow accurate measurement of growth.
• Vertically scaling students’ scores allows the comparison of test scores across individual administrations of a test.
• Document scores from year to year to measure student progress.

Time-of-Year Targets

Scaled Scores are expected to increase over the course of the year.

The following tables list the expected target scores for the beginning, middle, and end of the year for each grade and subject.

Reading Time of Year Target Scale Scores

Mathematics Time of Year Target Scale Scores

Universal Screener Score Ranges

The table below displays the scale score range a student can earn on the Universal Screener.

Readiness Level Cut/Target Scores

The following table displays the scaled level (cut) scores for Universal Screener Assessments. Universal Screener scaled score targets were updated in August 2019.

For more information on the reliability and validity of the Classworks Universal Screener, go to https://charts.intensiveintervention.org/chart/academic-screening.

Student Examples

At Grade Level Readiness

• Blaise recently completed the 3rd-grade math screener.
  • The image above is from the Universal Screener Student Summary report
  • Notice that the fall, winter, and spring time of year target scores on the report are the same as the ones in the Time of Year Target Score table at the top of this article.
  • Assessment Administered: Math Grade 3
  • Blaise's Universal Screener Score: 330  
  • Classworks Universal Screeners are readiness tests. Blaise's score indicates that he is ready to learn grade-level math concepts. 
  • Blaise's score indicates he is at an appropriate level of readiness for 3rd-grade math concepts.

Below Grade Level Readiness

• Lise recently completed the 5th-grade math screener.
  • The image above is from the Universal Screener Student Summary report
  • Notice that the fall, winter, and spring time of year target scores on the report are the same as the ones in the Time of Year Target Score table at the top of this article.
  • Assessment Administered: Math Grade 5
  • Lise's Universal Screener Score: 380  
  • Classworks Universal Screeners are readiness tests. Lise's score indicates she is not ready to learn grade-level math concepts. 

Above Grade Level Readiness

• Jennifer recently completed the 3rd-grade math screener.
  • The image above is from the Universal Screener Student Summary report
  • Notice that the fall, winter, and spring time of year target scores on the report are the same as the ones in the Time of Year Target Score table at the top of this article.
  • Assessment Administered: Math Grade 3
  • Jennifer's Universal Screener Score: 360  
  • Classworks Universal Screeners are readiness tests.  Jennifer's score indicates a high level of readiness for 3rd-grade math concepts.