DIBELS

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DIBELS Coordinator Training September 23, 2008
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Agenda

• DIBELS Overview
• Resource Notebooks
• 2008-2009 Information Sheet
• District DIBELS Website
• Official DIBELS Website

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Agenda

• Data System Housekeeping
• Data System Creating User Accounts
• Data System Viewing/Printing Reports
• Data System Entering Data
• Data System Advanced Topics
• Entering Progress Monitoring Data
• Secondary Classes
• Data Farming

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Why use DIBELS?

• Inexpensive
• Quick Screening/Monitoring Tool
• Based on the Big 5
• Identifies Students Who Need Help Early
• Allows Teachers to Monitor Progress Towards
  Literacy Goals

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School Responsibilities

• Assess all students in grades K-2 three times per
  year.
• Provide DIBELS Coordinator with completed testing
  booklets including scoring.
• Monitor progress of students who might need
  intervention according to the DIBELS screener and
  other relevant data.

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School Responsibilities

• Special Education students for whom reading is a
  goal can be assessed using DIBELS.
• ESOL students take the English version of DIBELS.
  The Spanish version may be used in addition to
  the English version for more information.
  Newcomers are exempt.

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DIBELS Testing Windows

• Benchmark 1 Aug 20 Sept 5
• Benchmark 2 Dec 1 Dec 12
• Benchmark 3 Apr 6 Apr 17

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Coordinator Responsibilities

• Attend Coordinator Training Sessions
• Enter Data on DIBELS Website
• Order DIBELS Benchmark and Progress Monitoring
  Materials
• Print reports and work with school faculty to
  utilize and understand DIBELS data

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Coordinator Responsibilities

• Make sure teachers in your building have been
  trained to administer DIBELS
• Contact Lorna Wells to come and work with your
  staff to better utilize the DIBELS assessments in
  your building

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Coordinator Trainings

• Training 1    September 23
• Training 2    December 16
• Training 3    April 21

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DIBELS Contacts

• Laurie Brady - lbrady_at_usd259.net
• DIBELS Website and Testing Questions
• Lorna Wells - LDWells_at_usd259.net
• DIBELS Training/Professional Development Requests
  

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New DIBELS Fields

• Nonsense Word Fluency
• CLS (Benchmark 50 CLS by Middle of 1st)
• WRC (Goal 15 WRC by Middle of 1st)
• Oral Reading Fluency
• Median Words Read Correctly
• Median Errors (Accuracy 90-95 or higher)

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Oral Reading Fluency
Median Accuracy is calculated as follows
Median Correct (Median Correct
Median Errors) 65 65 65 5
70
93
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A
B
C
D
1 2 3 4 5 6
75
79
15
5
45
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• Data from Basic
• Note Taking
• Low Risk
• Accuracy lt 90-95
• Words missed
• Retell less than ideal

85
14
71
71
84 accuracy
8
11 retell
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• Data from Extra
• Note Taking
• Low Risk
• Accuracy lt 90-95
• Words missed
• Retell less than ideal

won
SK
ku-ru
rod
SK
SK
SK
SK
SK
won
clos
what
SK
ku-ru

• Skipped multi-syllabic words when unfamiliar
• Mis-pronounced when, road, wait, close
• Didnt blend cr
• Ignored punctuation

85
14
71
71
84 accuracy
8
11 retell
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DIBELS Grouping Worksheet
You can add the error analysis information to a
grouping worksheet to help organize for targeted
instruction.
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MADE BENCHMARK Few Errors recoded 15
DIDNT MAKE BENCHMARK Most Errors are Medial
Vowels
MADE BENCHMARK Few Errors recoded lt15
DIDNT MAKE BENCHMARK Most Errors are Final
Consonants
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Color Coding Options for Student Booklets
B
M
E
2
9
0
18
42
16
48
10
25
3
0
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Resources for Intervention District

• Treasures Decodable Readers and Leveled Readers
  Intervention Strategies in Teachers Manual
• Phonics Lessons and Word Study Lessons - Fountas
  and Pinnell
• Phonics From A to Z and Teaching Phonics Word
  Study and Building Fluency Lessons and
  Strategies for Reading Success Wiley Blevins

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Resources for Intervention District

• Improving Reading 4th Edition - Jerry Johns
  Susan Lanski
• Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
  http//www.fcrr.org/
• How to Increase Reading Proficiency Chart

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Resources for Intervention - Additional

• Fluency Strategies and Assessment Jerry Johns
  Roberta Berglund
• Sounds in Action Yvette Zgonc (PA Activities
  and Assessments)
• Ive DIBELd Now What? Susan Hall

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Progress Monitoring
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Progress Monitoring
Progress monitoring is primarily for students who
are below benchmark on DIBELS and are receiving
intervention instruction. The numbers of students
in progress monitoring should decrease over time.
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Class List Report Start Here
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Progress Monitoring
Begin Progress Monitoring at the lowest deficit
skill. ISF gt PSF gt NWF gt ORF
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Progress Monitoring
Standard Progress Monitoring uses the following
sub-tests
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Progress Monitoring
Off-Level Progress Monitoring involves monitoring
with a sub-test typically used at a lower grade
level.
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Progress Monitoring
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Progress Monitoring Booklet
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SETTING THE GOAL The aimline connects where you
are to where you want to get to, and shows you
the course to follow to get there.
Aimline
X
X
X
4
10
9
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EVALUATING SUPPORT Modify Instruction?
Whoops! Time to make a change!
Aimline
X
X
X
X
X
X
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4
10
10
13
9
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EVALUATING SUPPORT Is Instructional Support
Sufficient Now?
A change in intervention
Aimline
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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4
22
10
10
13
9
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Progress Monitoring Website Report
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PM Ordering Form