Professional Development
Student Progress Monitoring Core Competencies Outline
The Core Competency Outline is intended for use in higher education courses and ongoing professional development settings in which there is an expectation that participants will master the identified competencies. All aspects of student progress monitoring are covered, from basic concepts to specific Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) probe administration and scoring in Reading, Math, Written Expression and Spelling. While there are many ways to utilize the Student Progress Monitoring Core Competencies Outline, some examples include:
- A University faculty member may use this outline to set up his/her semester course outline. The resources included under each competency could be used as resources for in-class discussion or for student extension assignments.
- A professional development provider in a school district may use the core competency outline to develop a year-long professional development plan, where each competency is covered within each 6-week period. The resources in the outline could be utilized as pre-reading assignments or discussion starters during the professional development.
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- Basics of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)
- Definition, description of use, differentiation from other forms of assessment
- Developments in Curriculum-Based Measurement (PDF)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) for Student Progress Monitoring
- What is Student Progress Monitoring and How Will it Help Me?
- How Progress Monitoring Assists Decision Making in a Response to Instruction Framework (PDF)
- Monitoring Student Progress in Individualized Educational Programs Using Curriculum-Based Measurement (PDF)
- Research Matters: How Student Progress Monitoring Improves Instruction (PDF)
- Advanced Application of CBM in Reading: Instructional Decision-Making Strategies (slides 4-17; manual pages 1-3)
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 4-56; manual pages 1-2)
- Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your Child
- What Can I Do to Make Sure My Child Receives the Benefits of CBM?
- What is Curriculum-Based Measurement and What Does It Mean to My Child?
- What is Scientifically-Based Research on Progress Monitoring? (MS Word)
- What Progress Monitoring Can Do For You (PowerPoint)
- When Assessment Isn’t Enough: Understanding Student Progress Monitoring
- Common Questions for Progress Monitoring
- Fact Sheet: Benefits of Curriculum-Based Measurement
- Monitoring Student Progress in the Classroom to Enhance Teacher Planning and Student Learning
- Progress Monitoring: What, Why, How, When, and Where (PowerPoint)
- Curriculum-Based Measurement and Statewide Tests
- Things to think about when planning to implement SPM/CBM
- Getting Started: How Do I Implement CBM in My School?
- Progress Monitoring in an Inclusive Standards-Based Assessment and Accountability System (PDF)
- Supporting Teachers Who are Implementing Student Progress Monitoring: A Guide for Administrators
- Implementing Student Progress Monitoring on a Statewide Basis (PowerPoint)
- Integrating Student Progress Monitoring into Your Classroom: The Teacher’s Perspective
- Monitoring Student Progress: Administrative Issues (PowerPoint, parts 3 and 4)
- Aligning Curriculum-Based Measurement with District Benchmarks and Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)
- CBM and special populations
- Monitoring Progress of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (PDF)
- Using CBM to Progress Monitor English Language Learners
- Supporting Teachers Who are Implementing Student Progress Monitoring: A Guide for Administrators (slides 79-88)
- Teaching Reading to Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (PDF)
- Implementation Examples
- Choosing a progress monitoring tool
- Advanced Application of CBM in Reading: Instructional Decision-Making Strategies (PowerPoint slides 34-73; manual pages 8-10)
- Student Progress Monitoring Tools Chart and Overview of Tool Review Process
- Supporting Teachers Who are Implementing Student Progress Monitoring: A Guide for Administrators (slides 42-44; handout pages 35-37)
- Choosing a Progress Monitoring Tool that Works for You
- Data-Based Instructional Decision Making (slides 17-78)
- Conduct student progress monitoring using CBM
- Placing a student in a task and identifying the appropriate level of material
- Progress Monitoring in Math (PDF, pages 17-19)
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (PowerPoint, slides 59-61; manual pages 8-9)
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 8-10)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 19-22)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 12-14; manual pages 6-7)
- Administer and score CBM
- Reading
- letter-sound fluency
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 62-72; manual pages 9-12; handouts pages 1-2)
- The ABCs of Progress Monitoring in Reading
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 12-17)
- word identification
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 73-82; manual pages 12-15; handouts pages 3-4)
- The ABCs of Progress Monitoring in Reading
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 18-23)
- oral reading fluency
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 83-95; manual pages 16-20; handouts pages 5-8)
- The ABCs of Progress Monitoring in Reading
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 24-29)
- maze
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 96-100; manual pages 20-23; handouts pages 9-10)
- The ABCs of Progress Monitoring in Reading
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 30-32)
- Math
- number identification
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 40-44)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 48-56, handout pages 9-12)
- quantity discrimination
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 45-49)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 57-65, slides 46-52, handout pages 13-16)
- missing number
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 50-54)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 66-74, handouts page 17-20)
- computation
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 21-32)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 23-37, handout pages 1-3)
- concepts and applications
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 33-38)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 38-47, handout pages 4-8)
- Written expression
- Written Expression
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 15-45; manual pages 7-15; handout pages 1-6)
- Spelling
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 46-57; manual pages 15-21; handout pages 7-8)
- Graph CBM data, set goals, draw trend lines
- What is Student Progress Monitoring and How Will it Help Me?
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 60-78)
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 101-121; manual pages 24-32)
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 34-49)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 75-93)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 58-76; manual pages 22-31)
- Formative Evaluation of Academic Progress (PDF)
- Data Utilization within a CBM Screening and Progress Monitoring System
- Interpreting graphed data: Decision-making protocols
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 123-129; manual pages 33-38)
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 50-58)
- Using CBM to Progress Monitor English Language Learners
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 95-101)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (slide 77-82; manual pages 31-36)
- Student Progress Monitoring in Mathematics (PDF, pages 74-81)
- Using Progress Monitoring to Develop Strong IEPs (PDF, pages 13-15)
- When Assessment Isn’t Enough: Understanding Student Progress Monitoring (PDF, pages 29-32)
- Advanced Application of CBM in Reading: Instructional Decision-Making Strategies (slides 18-33; manual pages 4-7)
- Data Utilization within a CBM Screening and Progress Monitoring System
- Use CBM data to make administrative and instructional decisions
- Making instructional modifications based on CBM data
- Progress Monitoring: What, Why, How, When, and Where (PDF, pages 48-66 and 72-81)
- Advanced Application of CBM in Reading: Instructional Decision-Making Strategies (slides 74-106; manual pages 10-21)
- Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 59-67)
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 122-136; manual pages 38-44)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 102-104 and 115-118)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 83-95; manual pages 36-39)
- Data Utilization within a CBM Screening and Progress Monitoring System (slides 34-48)
- Data-Based Instructional Decision Making (slides 79-131)
- What Progress Monitoring Can Do For You (PowerPoint, slides 36-55)
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 115-121)
- How Progress Monitoring Assists Decision Making in a Response to Instruction Framework
- Using CBM data to set IEP goals and monitor progress
- Monitoring Student Progress in the Classroom to Enhance Teacher Planning and Student Learning (slides 64-78)
- Improving Student Outcomes Through Progress Monitoring (PowerPoint, slides 59-72)
- Monitoring Student Progress in Individualized Educational Programs Using Curriculum-Based Measurement (PDF)
- Progress Monitoring: What, Why, How, When, and Where (PowerPoint, slides 82-92)
- The ABCs of Progress Monitoring in Reading (slides 53-60)
- Using Progress Monitoring to Develop Strong IEPs (PowerPoint)
- What Progress Monitoring Can Do For You (PowerPoint, slides 56-62)
- Applications of Progress Monitoring to IEP and Program Development (slides 28-55)
- Using CBM data to inform Adequate Yearly Progress Analysis
- Improving Student Outcomes Through Progress Monitoring (PDF, pages 21-34)
- What Progress Monitoring Can Do For You (PowerPoint, slides 63-76)
- Using CBM for AYP and Other Data Reporting
- Using CBM in a RTI framework: tiered decision-making
- How Progress Monitoring Assists Decision Making in a Response to Instruction Framework
- Improving Student Outcomes Through Progress Monitoring (PowerPoint, slides 36-58)
- Progress Monitoring: What, Why, How, When, and Where (PowerPoint, slides 93-103)
- Using CBM to Progress Monitor English Language Learners
- Using Student Progress Monitoring in a Response to Intervention Model
- What is Student Progress Monitoring and How Will it Help Me?
- Supporting Teachers Who are Implementing Student Progress Monitoring: A Guide for Administrators (slides 69-78)
- Determining the Response in RTI
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention (RTI)
- Tier 1: Primary — CBM screening and prevention
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention (RTI) (slides 69-88; manual 28-32)
- Tier 2: Secondary — implement intervention and monitor response
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention (RTI) (slides 90-106; manual 32-52)
- Tier 3: Tertiary
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention (RTI) (slides 118-149; manual 35-42)
- Case Studies
- Reading
- Advanced Application of CBM in Reading: Instructional Decision-Making Strategies (slides 102-106; manual pages 22-24)
- Grade One: Decoding
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 154-156 and 165-169; manual pages 52-55 and 58-63; handout pages 13-14 and 19-23)
- Math
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 122-123 and 132-137; handout page 22-23 and 28-33)
- Case Study Grade 1 Computation (PDF)
- Case Study Grade 3 Concepts and Applications (PDF)
- Written Expression
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (slides 119-122; manual pages 50-53; handout pages 18-21)
- RTI
- Grade One: Decoding
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention (RTI) (slides 151-190; manual 53-65; handout pages 16-19)
- Adequate Yearly Progress
- Introduction to Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Math (slides 105-114 and 124-131; handouts pages 24-27)
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Progress Monitoring in Written Expression (Slides 96-104 and 111-118; manual pages 40-43 and 46-50; handout pages 14-17)
- Introduction to CBM in Reading (slides 138-146 and 157-164; manual pages 45-48 and 55-58; handout pages 15-18)

