High+School+Measures

=High School Measures in RTI= Much of the research on CBM and progress monitoring at the high school level has been done at the University of Minnesota, and can be accessed at http://progressmonitoring.org. Their research indicates that to predict reading performance one can use either a 1-minute oral reading passage in which the number of words read correctly are counted, or a 3-minute maze passage in which the number of correct choices are counted. For progress monitoring, however, they recommend that only a 3-minute maze passage should be used. They have found that oral reading fluency does not produce valid and reliable growth rates for the high school level, whereas the maze passage does. They have constructed maze passages from human interest articles that appear in the newspaper.

They have also found that the best measure for predicting written expression at the high school level is to have students write for 7 minutes in response to a narrative prompt. Then they score the number of correct minus incorrect word sequences. For progress monitoring on a weekly basis they have found that a 5-minute sample is long enough.

For content-area learning (since this is especially important at the high school level) they have had success using a vocabulary-matching technique where students have 5 minutes to match terms with definitions. This is a good measure for both performance and progress monitoring. In the RtI for SLD model vocabulary data would be important for making decisions about reading comprehension as well as oral expression/listening comprehension if the test were given orally.