aimswebPlus overview
Why aimswebPlus?
• Need for
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More in-depth, standards-based, diagnostic reporting
Common Core alignment
Better information for instructional planning
Robust assessment of early reading skills
Progress monitoring measure of reading comprehension
Greater sensitivity to growth
• Must continue to
– Be brief
– Provide a system for goal-setting and progress monitoring
– Be easy to administer and interpret
What is aimswebPlus?
• New system of assessments, scheduled for release January
2015
• All the benefits of aimsweb, plus
– Additional layer of CCSS-aligned, diagnostic assessment
– Online testing for grades 2-12 (except oral fluency)
– Instructionally relevant
• Strengths and weaknesses by CCSS
• Lexiles
• Quantiles
• Uses the new aimsweb reporting system—alternative
subscription to the original aimsweb
aimswebPlus structure
• Screening/benchmark assessment—three times a year
– Part 1: Maintains the unique qualities of brief, timed CBM
• Efficient—1 to 10 minutes
• Generalizable, predictive
• Highly sensitive to change/growth
– Part 2: Brief, diagnostic assessment
• Aligned to Common Core
• Untimed so students answer all items
• Yields strengths/weaknesses; informs instruction and intervention
– Administered online for grades 2+
– Total administration time 20-30 minutes
• Progress monitoring—as frequently as weekly
– Brief, timed CBM measures; “part 1” of the screening
– 20 alternative forms per subject and grade level
– Administered online for grades 2+
Grade
Paper
Measure
BBS
Common Core State
Standards Area
Time
original aimsweb assessments
F
K
W
S
x
x
x
Print Concepts
Letter Naming
1 min
x
Phonological Awareness
Phonemic Segmentation
1 min
x
x
x
Phonics
Letter Sounds
1 min
x
x
x
Word Recognition & Fluency
Nonsense Words
1 min
x
x
x
MAZE
3 min
F
1
W
x
x
x
x
S
2
3
4
5
6
7
8-12
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Language: Vocabulary
Acquisition & Use
x
Comprehension & Fluency
Oral Reading
1-3 min
x
x
x
Screening admin time
2-4 min
2-3 min
3 min
3 min
3 min
3 min
3 min
3 min
3 min
Progress monitoring admin time
1-4 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
1-3 min
Grade
OSA
Measure
BBS
Common Core State
Standards Area
Time
aimswebPlus assessments
F
K
W
S
x
F
1
W
S
2
3
4
5
6
7
8-12
Print Concepts
2 min
x
x
Letter Naming
1 min
x
x
x
Initial Sounds
2 min
x
x
x
Phoneme Segmentation
1 min
x
x
x
x
Phonics
Letter/Word Sounds
1 min
x
x
x
x
Word Recognition & Fluency
High Frequency Words
1 min
x
x
x
x
x
Auditory Vocabulary
5 min
x
x
x
x
x
Vocabulary
5 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Passage Comprehension
20 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Comprehension Fluency
5 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Language: Vocabulary
Acquisition & Use
Comprehension & Fluency
Oral Reading
1-3 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Screening admin time
9-10 min
8-11 min
28 min
28 min
30 min
30 min
30 min
30 min
30 min
Progress monitoring admin time
1-5 min
1-3 min
1 min
1 min
1-5 min
1-5 min
1-5 min
1-5 min
1-5 min
Phoneme Segmentation
The teachers says a word.
The student says the individual phonemes, or
sounds, of the word in the correct order.
• Words chosen based on CCSS requirements
• Untimed
easier to administer and score.
Revised
Passage Comprehension
Comprehension content and questions were designed to:
• measure understanding of informational and literary text
• meet a range of CCSS expectations
• assess essential literal/recall and higher-level inferential questions
about text on grade level
The passages
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Informational Text – 50%
Literary Text – 50%
All questions reflect CCSS
Vocabulary in context
Leveled using Pearson’s Reading Maturity Metric
Comprehension Fluency
New
• New attempt to assess comprehension-based silent reading rate in an
ecologically valid and psychometrically sound way
• Objectives for the Comprehension Fluency test:
– Force the student to try to understand the gist of realistic text as he or she
reads.
– Use very easy comprehension questions
• Purpose of the test is not to measure ability to comprehend
• Purpose of the questions is to make the student pay attention
• Student doesn’t know what the question will be about, so he/she has to try to understand
the entire text
– Computer-administered
– Correlate well with unspeeded reading comprehension
– Sensitive to growth (like Oral Reading)
demo
Grade
Paper
Measure
BBS
Common Core State
Standards Area
Time
original aimsweb assessments
F
K
W
S
F
1
W
S
Counting & cardinality
Oral Counting
1 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Number awareness
Number Identification
1 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Quantity Discrimination
1 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Missing Number
1 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Computation
M-COMP
8 min
x
x
x
x
Problem solving
M-CAP
8-10 min
x
2
3
4
5
6
7
8-12
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
16 min
16 min
16 min
16 min
16 min
18 min
18 min
Number sense
Screening admin time
Progress monitoring admin time
4 min
12 min
1-4 min
1-8 min
8-16 min 8-16 min 8-16 min 8-16 min 8-16 min 8-18 min 8-18 min
Grade
OSA
Measure
BBS
Common Core State
Standards Area
Time
aimswebPlus assessments
F
K
W
S
x
x
x
x
x
Quantity Total
1 min
x
Quantity Match
1 min
x
Number ID
1 min
x
x
x
x
Number Comparison
1 min
x
x
x
x
Number Triads
3 min
Math Facts
1 min
x
1 min
x
F
1
W
S
x
x
x
2
3
4
5
6
7
8-12
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Counting & cardinality
Number awareness
Number sense
Computation
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Mental Computation
4 min
Problem solving
(3-5 items per CCSS domain)
10 min
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Concepts & Applications
20 min
x
Screening admin time
Progress monitoring admin time
14-16 min
13 min
28 min
28 min
28 min
28 min
28 min
28 min
28 min
1-2 min
1-2 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
3-7 min
aimswebPlus Early Numeracy
Early Numeracy PM measures
• Kindergarten: Emphasis on quantity and cardinality
– Number Naming – thru 20
– Quantity Total
– Quantity Match (W, S only)
• Grade 1: emphasis on addition/subtraction facts
– Number Comparison
– Math Facts
– Mental Computation (W, S only)
aimswebPlus Math
Concepts & Applications
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K through Grade 8
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Measures concept knowledge and problem solving skills
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Items written to assess Common Core State Standards
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Grades 2 – 8: Online testing; 30 multiple-choice items per form
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K & 1: individual administration with paper or tablet/handheld digital record form; 25
items per grade; Multiple Choice & short response
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3 forms (Fall, Winter, Spring) per grade
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Vertically scaled in grades 2 – 8
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Total score is designed to provide an estimate of math achievement and to contribute
to the prediction of student performance on the end-of-year state tests
aimswebPlus math
Concepts &
Applications
Number Triads
Mental Computation
2-8
2-8
2-8
Online
Online
Online
Screen/benchmark
Screen/benchmark & Progress
monitor
Screen/benchmark & Progress
monitor
Items
30
40
42
Forms per grade
3
20
20
20 minutes
3 minutes
4 minutes
Raw
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Percentile
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Composite
Concepts & Applications
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Number Triads
+
Mental Computation
Number Triads
+
Mental Computation
Number Triads
+
Mental Computation
Maybe
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Maybe
Maybe
Configuration & Scores
Grades
Administration
Configuration
Purpose
Testing time
Scores
ROI & Student Growth %tile
Strengths & Weaknesses
Grade equivalency
Maybe
Vertical scale score
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aimswebPlus Math
Grade
Common Core Area and
Domain
2
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Algebra
3
4
5
6
F
W
S
F
W
S
F
W
S
F
W
S
F
6
7
4
12
11
8
10
7
6
6
4
5
3
Expressions & Equations
5
W
7
S
8-12
F
W
S
F
W
S
10
7
6
16
14
13
3
3
2
2
1
7
7
Functions
Number & Operations in Base 10
Number
Data
7
9
9
6
4
4
4
3
4
2
12
10
3
2
3
4
4
5
11
9
9
7
7
3
1
The Number System
9
10
10
7
5
5
3
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
3
3
3
8
7
6
2
3
3
1
5
6
2
6
6
Number & Operations—Fractions
Measurement & Data
11
9
13
7
9
10
6
5
7
7
2
3
Statistics & Probability
Geometry
4
3
3
Non Common Core items
2
2
1
Total
30
30
30
1
2
2
4
4
4
4
6
5
5
4
4
5
5
6
7
7
5
6
30
30
30
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
31
30
30
30
30
30
aimswebPlus Number Triads
Item count by grade
Topic
2
3
6
7
8
2 digit comparisons
17
5
3 digit comparisons
23
23
10
12
20
10
8
6
Fractions of form (x/100) to decimals
8
8
4
Fractions of form x/10 to fractions with denominators of multiples of 10
14
8
8
8
8
4
8
7
4 digit comparisons
4
5 digit comparisons
Fractions <1 with 0 and 1 as anchors
Fractions <1 with 0 and a fraction as anchors
Decimals
Negatives
5
15
5
10
10
5
5
Scientific notation
7
Squares
4
aimswebPlus Mental Computation
Topic
Grade(s)
Add and subtract 2 digit multiples of 10
2
Add and subtract 2 digit multiples of 100
2
Add/subtract a 2 digit to/from a 3 digit
2
Add 3 digit and a 4 digit
3
Subtract 3 digits from 3-digit/4-digit numbers
3
Multiply 1 digit x 2 digit multiple of 10
3
Multiply 1 digit x 3 digit multiple of 10
3
Multiply 2 digit x 2 digit, both multiples of 10
4
Multiply 3 digit x 2 digit, both multiples of 10
4
Divide 3 digit (multiple of 10) by 1 digit
4
Add/subtract 4 digit and 5 digit numbers
4-5
Multiply and divide multiples of 10
5-6
Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
5-6
Order of operations
5-7
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
5-8
Multiply decimal (tenths) by whole number or decimal (tenths)
6-8
Whole number divided by a fraction
7-8
Solve for y
7-8
Add/subtract with negative numbers
8
aimswebPlus K-1, Concepts & Applications
Grade
K
Common Core Area
Fall
1
Winter
Spring
Fall
Winter
Spring
Number of items per domain per form
Counting & Cardinality
7
6
7
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
9
10
8
12
12
12
Number & Operations in Base Ten
1
1
1
5
5
5
Measurement & Data
4
4
4
5
5
5
Geometry
4
4
5
3
3
3
25
25
25
25
25
25
Total items per form
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