Theodore Christ

Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is frequently used to estimate the rate of individual student progress and evaluate instructional effects. CBM resources provide teachers with guidelines and decision rules for interpreting CBM scores and making instructional and placement decisions based on the data. However, these guidelines and rules have little information about their technical adequacy, indicating that potentially high-stakes decisions could be made with little support for the reliabil...

Despite the recent increase in the number of reading assessments created for use in classrooms, very few assessments are designed to provide ongoing instructionally-relevant information to teachers. Useful reading assessments may be those that help teachers to identify students who are at risk for reading problems. In this study, researchers intend to further develop and validate the Computer-Based Assessment System for Reading (CBAS-R), which is designed to be a highly-efficient tool to mon...