Curriculum-Based Measurement Academic Skill Probes

Probe / Grade level / Skill area / What it measures / Administration
Time / Individual or
Group
Picture Naming / Pre K and K / Expressive vocabulary / # of pictures labeled correctly / 1 minute / Individual
Alliteration / Pre K and K / Matching initial sounds / # of initial sounds identified correctly / 2 minutes / Individual
Rhyming / Pre K and K / Matching pictures of rhyming words / # of correctly matched rhymes / 2 minutes / Individual
Initial Sound Fluency / Pre K and K / Recognize and produce initial sounds in orally presented words / # of correct initial sounds / 3 minute / Individual
Letter Naming Fluency / K and 1 / Naming letters / # of upper and lower case letters named / 1 minute / Individual
Letter Sound Fluency / K and 1 / Naming letter sounds / # of letter sounds named / 1 minute / Individual
Nonsense Word Fluency / K-3 / Phonics / # of phonemes named (nonsense words are presented visually; students name phonemes in isolation or blended) / 1 minute / Individual
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency / K-3 / Phonological Awareness / # of phonemes named (whole words are presented orally; students take apart words phoneme by phoneme) / 1 minute / Individual
Word Identification / 1 / Sight word recognition / # of words read correctly / 1 minute / Individual
Oral Counting / K and 1 / Oral Counting / # of numerals named sequential order in & # of errors / 1 minute / Individual
Number Identification / K and 1 / Naming numbers / # of numerals identified correctly & # of errors / 1 minute / Individual
Missing Number / K and 1 / Naming missing numbers / # of correct numerals named & # of errors (presented in a sequence of 3) / 1 minute / Individual
Quantity Discrimination / K and 1 / Naming the bigger of two numbers / # of correctly stated bigger numbers & # of errors / 1 minute / Individual
Reading Curriculum Based Measurement / K-12 / Oral Reading Fluency / # of words read correctly & # of errors / 1 minute / Individual
Story Retell Fluency / 1-6 / Story Comprehension / # of words reproduced during the retell / 1 minute / Individual
Word Use Fluency / K-3 / Vocabulary/Oral expression / # of words used correctly in phrases, expressions or sentences / 1 minute / Individual
Vocabulary / K-12 / Word meanings / # of correct matches / 5 minutes / Group
Math Curriculum Based Measurement / K-12 / Math Computation / # of digits computed correctly from mixed operations / K-3 2 minutes
4-12 4 minutes / Group
Math Concepts and Application / 2-6 / Math problem solving (time, money, graphs, word problems, etc…) / # of blanks answered correctly / Group administered
2nd 8 minutes
3-4 6 minutes
5-6 7 minutes / Group
Maze / 1-12 / Silent Reading Comprehension / # of correct words & # of errors (multiple choice cloze task where every 7th word is replaced by 3 word choices) / 3 minutes / Group
Spelling / K-12 / Spelling words from a list / # of correct letter sequence pairs & # of words spelled correctly (grades 1-2 12 words; grades 3-8 17 words) / 2 minutes / Group
Written Expression / 3-12 / Creative story writing / writing when given a story prompt
# of total words written
# of word pairs that are correct within the context of what is written
# of words spelled correctly / 3 minutes / Group

SSTAGE: Building Capability & Capacity for RtI within the Pyramid of Interventions,

Summer GAEL 2008