Common Questions
Using Progress Monitoring with NWEA Status Norms
2024 NWEA Update NWEA is in the process of recalibrating its RIT scale and adopting an enhanced item selection algorithm in their newer assessments. These product updates are being released across both growth and screening tests with some states ...
How do I use the Classworks Assessment Norm-Referenced Percentile Ranks to place my students into their tiered interventions?
Best practices for RTI often recommend using nationally norm-referenced scores to determine which students in a school or district are recommended for intervention services. To help with that, Classworks includes norm-referenced percentile scores for ...
How do I use the Classworks Assessment Scaled Score Results to place my students into their tiered interventions?
The Classworks assessment gives you a wealth of information about students! From target scores to skill gaps, these vertically scaled assessments are powerful data points. Many educators use these assessment results to place students in the ...
How do I determine a student's CBM level?
Because intervention is given to students at their current instructional level and not at their current grade level, determining the assessment level for Progress Monitoring is important. In other words, if you have a student that is working far ...
What curriculum strands are assessed on CBM Probes?
In Math items measure learning standards within these strands: Algebraic Thinking Geometry & Measurement Numbers & Operations Data Analysis & Statistics/Probability Mathematical Reasoning In Language Arts items measure learning standards within these ...
What do Suggested Tiers on the Progress Monitoring page mean?
If a student has completed the Classworks Universal Screener, Classworks will automatically identify the student's Suggested Tier based on their percentile ranking using easy color coding. The Suggested Tiers are based on NCII’s recommended ...
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. It’s important to note that both of these approaches are based in rigorous ...
What are CBM Probes?
CBM stands for Curriculum-Based Measurement. It is the process by which a student’s general learning is measured, with repeated administrations of equated probes. When used for progress monitoring, Curriculum-Based Measurements should have the ...
What is Progress Monitoring?
While student progress monitoring sounds fairly self-explanatory, it has a distinct meaning when used in an MTSS model or as an element of a student's IEP. Student progress monitoring is a repeated measurement of performance, using equated probes, to ...
Getting Started with Progress Monitoring
Prior to diving into Progress Monitoring, take our free, self-paced, online Smartguide course, Effective and Efficient Progress Monitoring. Classworks online Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) probes help you identify what is or isn't working with a ...