Thanks for those answers, Jeanne. I too agree that we are spending way too
much time testing students when we could be teaching them. Thanks to our state
and federal governments for that. When will they ask teachers how to handle
these things?
Lisa
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Jeanne Crider jeann...@charter.net wrote:
From: Jeanne Crider jeann...@charter.net
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 9:39 PM
I'm not a classroom teacher, I'm a reading specialist. We use Everyday Math
and I know the 1st grade teachers I work with don't like the math portion of
the AIMS Web.
Generating reports is very easy but as others mentioned earlier, we already
have information about who needs help and who is doing okay. It's just 3 days
per year I don't get to teach because I'm testing. Between benchmarking 3
times per year and all the progress monitoring the teachers have to do, there
is less time for them to teach too. The poor students are yet again tested.
The poor things, in my opinion are already over tested.
After giving the AIMS Web, in my school anyway, we then pick interventions that
are researched based one size fits all programs. They may be implemented by
a teacher, a 5th grader, a HS student, a computer program or just about anyone
or anything they can get their hands on. Isn't that grand!
Another thing that someone else mentioned, I'm noticing too. It seems like the
students who we see as doing well in the classroom don't necessarily do well on
the test and vice versa. Students who self-correct while reading or think
about meaning don't do as well because the timed reading portion is all based
on speed. Isn't that what we want students to do when they are reading, read
really fast and not think about what they are reading? (JK!) Argh!
- Original Message - From: Lisa McGilloway lisamcgill...@yahoo.com
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?
Thanks so much for the response about AIMS web. If you have a minute I have a
few other questions: Do you find it easy to use and generate reports? What do
you think of the comprehension piece (not sure what a comprehension 'maze'
is?)? What about the Math portion? We use Everyday Math and I am curious as to
how it may correlate with that.
Thanks so much for any information you can share! Lisa
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Yingling yingli...@frontiernet.net wrote:
From: Yingling yingli...@frontiernet.net
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI - Any info on AIMS Web?
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 1:35 PM
We've been using AIMSWeb for 3 years now for at least K-5 (I think maybe higher
also). The fluency CBMs are just like DIBELS. Aimsweb also has a comprehension
maze test and a couple of math tests. It gives a lot of reports as to how a
student is doing based on class, school, etc... It's an okay start as to
identifying students for RTI services. I don't think you should use it solely
to place students into RTI intervention groups.
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