Response to Intervention Awareness - Resources (Continued from page 1)
Curriculum-Based Measurement
Curriculum-Based Measurement Warehouse
Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) Warehouse is a service of Intervention Central. CBM Warehouse offers resources for professional development, such as training manuals and handouts. The site includes CBM probes, recording forms, and selected interventions. A section is devoted to computer applications and printable graphs for charting CBM data. Links to other CBM sites are also included.
What Is Curriculum-Based Measurement And What Does It Mean to My Child?
This article, by Kathleen McLane, appears on the family resources link of the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring website. The author gives parents a basic overview of curriculum based-measurement and its benefits. A link to an additional article is provided for parents seeking more detailed information about CBM.
Data Management
Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network This page appears on the Florida Center for Reading Research website. The Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network (PMRN) is a web-based data management system for recording and reporting student assessment data. The PMRN stores, organizes, and generates descriptive reports based on DIBELS data that can be used to plan reading instruction and to evaluate progress.
Data Use and Data Based Decision Making
Determining Instructional Level and Conducting Ongoing Progress Monitoring (PDF Download)
This document is the Florida Center for Reading Research’s ongoing progress monitoring guide. FCRR provides guidance for determining instructional reading levels and monitoring progress using DIBELS data. The guide includes Steps and Decision Rules flowcharts for grades 1 – 3.
Establishing a Data-based Decision-making System (PowerPoint Show Download)
This online training module is provided on Florida’s Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Project’s website. It is one of 13 modules designed to be completed by a school’s PBS team. Content includes a rationale for and benefits of data-based decision-making systems as well as information about the type of data to collect and when to enter and analyze it.
Response to Intervention/Data Based Problem Solving
This is a video/audio presentation by Edward Daly and Todd Glover of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The authors provide a rationale and brief overview of RtI as well as considerations for implementation. Daly and Glover include graphs to illustrate the practical use of data in each step of the problem solving process. To view the presentation slide by slide, click here.
Using Assessment to Inform Instruction
This page appears on the Florida Center for Reading Research’s website. FCRR provides links to presentations and documents that focus on using data to guide instruction. Topics include developing school-based reading assessment plans and using Progress Monitoring Reporting Network reports.
Using Student Outcome Data to Help Guide Professional Development and Teacher Support: Issues for Reading First and K-12 Reading Plans (PDF Download)
In this brief, authors Joseph Torgesen, Jane Granger Meadows, and Patricia Howard discuss how objective student performance data can guide, focus, and set priorities for the professional development of teachers. The authors list key issues to using data for these purposes and discuss DIBELS specifically. They provide strategies to be used concurrently with professional development in order to improve reading outcomes.
Interventions
Florida Center for Reading Research
The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) was established to conduct research on literacy development and reading instruction and assessment. Resources provided on the website are research based and range in target age from PreK through 12th Grade. While the site does not specifically address RtI as a conceptual model, it does provide an array of evidence-based interventions that can be used in a data based, decision-making model such as RtI. Information regarding core and supplemental reading instruction strategies and progress monitoring tools is also included.
International Reading Association
This site offers a plethora of articles that have been collected by the International Reading Association (IRA). Most of the resources listed on this site are published in professional, refereed journals and are available at no charge. While the focus of the site is primarily on research in the field of reading and emergent literacy, there are some references included that address RtI and problem solving in more general terms.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
The OSEP Technical Assistance Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports was established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. The site provides examples of positive behavior supports (PBS) across a tiered model with authentic data from schools and districts that have implemented PBS. Information for families is also provided.
RtI Wire
This site offers a range of resources including non-commercially published articles. There are five sections listed, each containing a variety of links and sites for the reader to review, including:
1. RtI: Understanding the Model
2. RtI and Problem-Solving Teams
3. Selecting the Right Intervention
4. Monitoring Student Progress
5. Graphing Data for Visual Analysis
