AIMSweb is a web-based assessment, data management, and reporting system that provides the framework for Response to Intervention (RTI) and multi-tiered instruction. Designed specifically to universally screen and progress monitor, AIMSweb uses brief, valid, and reliable General Outcome Measures of reading and math performance for Grades K-8 that can be used with any curriculum.
AIMSweb is a complete web-based solution for universal screening, progress monitoring, and data management for Grades K-8. AIMSweb provides guidance to administrators and teachers based on accurate, continuous, and direct student assessment.
It helps school administrators demonstrate tangible improvements. It helps teachers become more effective and more efficient in the classroom. Most important of all, AIMSweb helps to create better outcomes for students—proven by the thousand of schools that use the system across the United States and Canada today.
Reading-CBM
Standard Oral Reading Fluency Assessment Passages
The AIMSweb Reading CBM (R-CBM) assessment can be purchased as part of an AIMSweb subscription.
More than30 years of research has shown that listening to a child read graded passages aloud for 1 minute and calculating the number of words read correct per minute provides a highly reliable and valid measure of general reading achievement, including comprehension, for most students.
This testing practice, Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R-CBM), has met the standards for use in Reading First as determined by the Secretary of Education's Committee on Reading Assessment and the National Center on Response to Intervention.
To assist educators in assessing students using R-CBM, Pearson has developed high quality sets of Standard Reading Assessment Passages for Grades K-8 as part of the AIMSweb system. Typically, there are over 30 equivalent passages at each grade.
The passages were written by experienced educators and field-tested, revised, and researched by experienced educational researchers. The technical manual describes both the passage construction process and the outcomes with respect to field-testing and relations to a variety of readability formulae and alternate form reliability. AIMSweb R-CBM assessments:
Meet professional standards for reliability validity, and sensitivity to improvement.
Are research-based.
Are curriculum independent, ensuring that student achievement is assessed equitably regardless of curriculum differences among teachers and schools, and/or changes in curriculum over time.
Available for Grades K through 8.