Curriculum-Based Measurement for Reading Progress

This article contains a set of detailed steps that will assist middle and high school special ed-ucation teachers in the construction and implementation of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) to track reading progress. CBM involves teachers, students, and parents in progress monitoring. The steps include information on how to construct and organize a CBM, how to administer and score a CBM, how to use the information for instructional changes, and how to use the data collected from a CBM to inform parents about their child’s progress. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a series of informal miniachievement teststhat teachers can develop in the areas ofreading, mathematics, spelling, and writing.CBM focuses on measurement using the actual curriculum in which the student works. It uses stan-dardized methodology with documented reliability and va-lidity. CBM is an authentic, data-based assessment that helps the special education teacher • monitor progress of individual students on an ongoing basis, • determine what to teach, • quickly determine if instruction is effective so tha