Universal Assessment

As part of RtII, districts must use a universal assessment to measure students’ progress throughout the school year.  Wellsboro Area School District utilizes the AIMSWEB universal assessment program.  AIMSWEB allows all students in grades Kindergarten through eighth grade to be assessed three times per year (September, January and May) on the following areas:

Kindergarten                                    Early Literacy           Letter Naming Fluency

                                                                                        Letter Sound Fluency

                                                                                        Phonemic Segmentation Fluency

                                                                                        Nonsense Word Fluency

                                                            Early Numeracy          Oral Counting

                                                                                       Number Identification

                                                                                       Quantity Discrimination

                                                                                       Missing Number

First Grade                                    Early Literacy and Early Numeracy as outlined above

                                                         Reading Fluency

Second through Eighth Grades        Reading Fluency

                                                         MAZE – Reading Comprehension

                                                         Math Computation

The scores from these benchmark assessments are then used by the teachers to group the students for the RtII intervention groups.

AIMSWEB also allows teachers to progress monitor students’ progress more frequently than three times per year by using their progress monitoring tools.