In order to plan for the educational needs of my students, I give a test called Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills. I administer this test to my students a couple of times a year. I begin the year with the test to get a baseline of each student’s skills. I use this information to group students together academically and plan to plan lessons for each student. I also use this test before and after winter break to determine each students eligibility for extended school year services. The last time that I use this test during the school year is at the end so that I can document where each student is academically at the end of the school year.
This test tests all skills from naming colors to determining the reading level for each student. To read more about the test, you can find it at:http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/detail.aspx?title=BrigCIBS#additional_nav.
Some facts about the test are below:
CIBS–R may be used as a criterion-referenced or a norm-referenced assessment tool.
Criterion-referenced assessment
CIBS–R meets the following assessment objectives:
- identify present levels of academic achievement and functional performance
- connect assessment with instruction
- monitor and report progress for IEPs
Features/Benefits:
- grade-placement tests in key skill areas
- pretests and post tests for many skills
- 150+ skills assessments
- reproducible assessments for group administration
- supplemental and related skill sequences to facilitate instructional planning
- Aligns with state and national standards
Assessment Components:
- CIBS–R Inventory
- directions for administration, assessor pages, student pages, comprehensive and supplemental skill sequences
- Student Record Book
- tracks and records assessments administered, responses, progress, and instructional objectives
- Class Record Book
- matrix of skills assessed, mastered, and objectives for group of 30 students
- Student Profile Test Booklet
- student pages for grade placement tests, Forms A and B
- used to determine need for further assessment, to collect placement data, or as alternate assessment
- Goals and Objectives on CD
- create lists of CIBS–R goals and objectives to save, print, or export into IEP forms
Standardized assessment
As a standardized assessment tool, CIBS–R may be used to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and obtain data to support referrals
Features/Benefits:
- identifies children with learning disabilities, giftedness, or other exceptionalities with the diagnostic portion of the battery
- produces grade and age equivalents, percentiles, and quotients in I.D.E.A.-designated achievement areas
- Meets state and national assessment requirements
Assessment Components:
For standardized testing, in addition to components noted above for criterion-referenced assessment:
- Standardization and Validation Manual
- summary of standardized study
- administration procedures and conversion charts
- Scoring Conversion CD
- calculates chronological age
- converts raw scores to quotients, percentiles, age equivalents, and instructional ranges
- includes Standardization and Validation Manual
- Screener Test Booklet, Grades 1–6
- simplifies screening with assessor and student pages for reading comprehension, sentence writing, and math computation-eliminates need to reproduce Inventory pages
- Standardized Scoring Sheets Readiness or Grades 1–6
- on triplicate forms for recording raw scores, quotients, percentiles, grade equivalents, and instructional ranges to share with staff and parents
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