The Progress Monitor Nov, '05, Vol 2 - National Center on Student Progress Monitoring’s monthly newsletter

title: The Progress Monitor, November 2005, Issue 2, www.studentprogress.org

This is the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring’s monthly newsletter, The Progress Monitor. We hope that you enjoy our second issue and welcome your feedback at studentprogress@air.org.

WEB HIGHLIGHT
	CBM Training Materials We invite you to visit the training section in our website’s library to access a training manual on Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) in reading and our recently posted training manual on CBM in math. These manuals were used in our past two Summer Institutes. Each training manual includes a PowerPoint presentation, a trainer’s manual, and presentation handouts for hands-on activities. You can use these training manuals to provide information about student progress monitoring to others in your states, districts, and schools.
POLICY
	Technical Assistance Tools from OSEP The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has developed a series of 19 topic briefs around several high-interest areas of IDEA. Topic briefs include a summary of all relevant statutory language around that topic, the citations, and a cross-reference, when applicable, to other related briefs. Briefs pertaining to student progress monitoring include: Changes in Initial Evaluation and Reevaluation Individualized Education Program (IEP)
RESEARCH
	Research Study Relating CBM and High Stakes Tests With increasing attention on accountability and high-stakes assessment, the relationship between CBM and state-mandated testing programs has been a recent topic of interest. This study was designed to compare different statistical and methodological approaches to standard setting and determining cut scores using reading CBM (R-CBM) and performance on high-stakes tests. Results suggested that R-CBM is strongly associated with high stakes assessment in first through third grades and is both accurate and efficient in predicting those students who are likely to pass the reading portion of the assessment beginning in first grade. We would like to thank the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), one of our partners with whom we collaborate, for making this research study available on their website.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
	Partner Events 16th Annual CASE Conference “Taking the Duh out of Data” November 11-12, 2005 Scottsdale, Arizona Council for Educational Diagnostic Services (CEDS) Annual Conference “Educational Assessment: Looking Forward, Reaching Further” November 17-19, 2005 Alexandria, Virginia 2006 Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention & Expo April 5-8, 2006 Salt Lake City, Utah Other Events National Inclusive Schools Week December 5-9, 2005 National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference & Expo 2005 December 7-10, 2005 Washington, D.C. 2005 OSEP National Early Childhood Conference “Celebrating Three Decades of IDEAs” December 12-14, 2005 Washington, D.C. National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)'s First Annual National Conference "Creating Opportunities to Learn: A Forum for Addressing Disproportionality" February 15-17, 2006 Denver, Colorado Learning Disabilities Association of America’s (LDA) Annual International Conference February 26-March 1, 2006 Jacksonville, Florida "Accommodating Students with Disabilities on State Assessments: What Works?" Co-sponsored by ETS, the College Board, Council for Exceptional Children, and the National Institute for Urban School Improvement March 19-21, 2006 Charleston, South Carolina
ABOUT US
The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), was established to meet the challenge of implementing effective student progress monitoring in order to improve academic instruction. Our mission is to provide technical assistance to states and districts and to disseminate information about student progress monitoring practices proven to work in different academic content areas in grades K-5. If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, click here. If you've received this newsletter in error, or if you wish to unsubscribe, please email us and write "unsubscribe" in the subject line.