mCLASS Assessment Guide

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mCLASS Guide

What is mCLASS?

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Kindergarten

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Progress Monitoring

1st Grade

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2nd Grade

Data Diving

mCLASS Login Info

Assessments

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten scholars require several assessments. However, they may be 'discontinued' on later assessments as you proceed through your assessments. Complete assessments in order, select overviews from below, click 'administration' for video examples of assessments being completed, and click 'scoring' for detailed videos on scoring criteria where necessary.

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

mCLASS Assessments. 1:1 with Teacher, 1 min each, required for all scholars.

PSF

NWF

Spelling

WRF

DEC

CS

LNF

Not in BOY

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Benchmark

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Instruct

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Monitor

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1st

1st Grade

1st Grade scholars require the most assessments of any grade level. However, they may be 'discontinued' on later assessments as you proceed through your assessments. Complete assessments in order, select overviews from below, click 'administration' for video examples of assessments being completed, and click 'scoring' for detailed videos on scoring criteria where necessary.

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

mCLASS Assessments. 1:1 with Teacher, 1 min each, required for all scholars.

PSF

NWF

ORF

Spelling

WRF

DEC

CS

LNF

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Benchmark

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Instruct

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Monitor

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2nd

2nd Grade

2nd Grade scholars require several assessments. However, they may be 'discontinued' on later assessments as you proceed through your assessments. Complete assessments in order, select overviews from below, click 'administration' for video examples of assessments being completed, and click 'scoring' for detailed videos on scoring criteria where necessary.

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

mCLASS Assessments. 1:1 with Teacher, 1 min each, required for all scholars.

Maze

NWF

Spelling

ORF

WRF

DEC

CS

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Administration

Scoring

Scoring

Scoring

Benchmark

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Analyze

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Instruct

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Monitor

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mCLASS Login Info

• Head to classlink.
• Click on Amplify.
• Click on mCLASS on the left.
• Contact dwilson@uplifteducation.org for support.

• What about student logins? Click here.

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Benchmark

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Assessments

1. Students log into classlink then amplify and complete self-guided benchmarks.
2. Teacher logs into classlink then amplify and pulls students individually.
3. Once composite score loads and intervention column says "Ready" you have finished assessing that student.
4. Contact dwilson@uplifteducation.org for support.

Benchmark Assessments are mandatory for state ERI and Dyslexia Reporting

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Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

Then...

First...

Next...

Benchmark

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Assessments

Students take computer based assessments.

• Spelling
• Maze
• OL

These tests can be done independently in small or whole group.

Teacher completes individual assessments.

• LNF
• PSF
• NWF
• WRF
• ORF

These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time. Each assessment is timed at 1 minute.

Teacher completes Intervention assessments that mCLASS displays as active in accordance with campus expectations.

• DEC-RW
• DEC-IW
• DEC-AP
• DEC-LC
• CS
• VOC

These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time.

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Click for Instructions and Video Examples

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Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

First...

Example

Logging In

Benchmark

01.1

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Assessments

Students take computer based assessments.

• Spelling
• Maze
• OL

These tests can be done independently in small or whole group.

Spelling

Administration

Maze

Administration

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Oral Language - Optional

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Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

Then...

Administration

Letter Name Fluency

Scoring

Benchmark

01.2

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Assessments

Teacher completes individual assessments.

• LNF
• PSF
• NWF
• WRF
• ORF

These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time. Each assessment is timed at 1 minute.

Administration

Phonemic Segementation Fluency

Scoring

Administration

Nonsense Word Fluency

Scoring

Administration

Word Reading Fluency

Scoring

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Administration

Oral Reading Fluency

Scoring

READ ME:

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Do I need to complete mCLASS Intervention?

Next...

Decoding Measures

• Irregular Words
• Regular Words
• Letter Combinations
• Advanced Phonics

Benchmark

01.3

Assessments

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Teacher completes Intervention assessments that mCLASS displays as active in accordance with campus expectations.

• DEC-RW
• DEC-IW
• DEC-AP
• DEC-LC
• CS
• VOC

These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time.

Administration

Administration

Comprehension Skills

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Vocabulary - Optional

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Analyze

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Part A: Benchmarks

The Benchmarks DashboardOnce assessments are complete, all data livestreams to the teacher dashboard. The benchmark screen allows you to see each assessment as well as overall composite score for every student in your class.

• You can activate the toggle to see lexiles or percentiles.
• You can sort by any test to group students by skills.
• You can click on any score to bring up the specific assessment results with each student response.

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Part B: Progress

The Progress Dashboard Progress monitoring is tracked via the Progress Dashboard. There, you can see your student progress between benchmarks, growth in individual goal areas, goal setting, and growth outcomes. Use this page to check for growth over time, and track who you have progress monitored recently.

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Click for Part C: Home Connect

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Part A: Instruction Tools

mCLASS Instruction Tools Instructional tools automatically group students and provide a list of small group scripted lessons designed for the teacher table. When you progress monitor a student, their grouping updates if their data reflects growth. You can also find these resources by individual student need or select your own via the "All Activities" section. Instruction Tools are high quality resources, but Intervention tools are more targeted and planned.

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Part B: Intervention

mCLASS Intervention mCLASS Intervention utilizes all mCLASS data as well as additional Intervention assessments to create targeted instructional plans or 'bursts.' Instead of a pool of resources (mCLASS Instruction Tools), mCLASS Intervention creates a ten day lesson plan for teachers, interventionists, TAs, or Residents to follow where different activities scaffold skills. Day 10 includes a plan for which progress monitorings to complete, at which point a new 10 day plan is created from the new data. Before you can utilize mCLASS Intervention, you need to first create groups. These groups can filter by composite score level and can cross between classes or even grade levels for team teaching, TAs, Interventionists, or other types of cross-team support. The larger the group of students, the more refined that skills targeting can become.

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Part C: Home Connect

mCLASS Home Connect mCLASS has easy to print English and Spanish reports for parents. They can be individually or batch downloaded. The resources help describe potential struggles based on assessment results and put it into parent friendly language, including some simple steps to support at home. They also direct parents towards the mCLASS Home Connect site, where parent-friendly activities are described in a single paragraph and help parents to utilize activities based in the science of teaching reading to provide support at home.

Do I need to progress monitor?

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mCLASS - Non Intervention

mCLASS Intervention

Progress Monitoring is recommended by the system.

Progress Monitoring is specified at the end of the burst.

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Progress Monitoring

No recommendation?

Progress Monitor Biweekly

Assess the measure that best aligns with the small group work you've been doing with the student. See below for frequency details.

Follow the 10 day burst lesson plan. Assess on specified domains in the "prepare for next burst" section.

Videos on mclass assessments

Videos on mclass assessments

videos on intervention assessments

How often do I Progress Monitor?

Do I need to progress monitor?

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Administration

Letter Name Fluency

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Scoring

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Progress Monitoring

Teacher completes recommended assessments from either assessment dashboard or day 10 of burst. If student has no recommended assessments, assess the measure most aligned with small group lessons. These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time. Each assessment is timed at 1 minute. They are identical to the benchmark assessments.

Administration

Phonemic Segementation Fluency

Scoring

Administration

Nonsense Word Fluency

Scoring

Administration

Word Reading Fluency

Scoring

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Administration

Oral Reading Fluency

Scoring

Then Intervention Measures as recommended

Do I need to progress monitor?

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Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

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Decoding Measures

• Irregular Words
• Regular Words
• Letter Combinations
• Advanced Phonics

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Progress Monitoring

Teacher completes Intervention assessments as recommended by day 10 of burst. These tests are completed by the teacher and a single student at a time. None of these assessments are necessary for students not in a burst group.

Administration

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Administration

Comprehension Skills

Vocabulary - Optional

Help and FAQ

Help! My data isn't showing! / Testing was completed but reports are not showing that class as complete.

A student says "Ready" but a composite score is not appearing!

A student is not on my roster but should be or is on my roster but shouldn't be.

I am responsible for assessing a class I do not have access to. What should I do?

Is there any way I can practice or norm on assessments?

Where can I find the testing documents?

My iHELP hasn't received any response!

I can't find the answer to my question!

mCLASS allows us to benchmark against nationally normed data, access aligned and high quality small group materials, and utilize effective progress monitoring to update data and inform instruction in real time.

Progress monitor biweekly to gather new data

Daily small groups using provided lessons

mCLASS automatically groups students

Benchmark Assessments occur 3x per year

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Burst Resources

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Assessments

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• Students login via classlink.
• Assessments will be prompted immediately.
• Assessments are designed to be student-friendly.

But what do I assess?

Do I need to progress monitor?Yes. For any students who are not above grade level, PM assessments are a network expectation and tracked.For any students above level, it is recommended you find some time to assess. Progress Monitoring is an imperative part of the data driven instruction cycle. Without consistent monitoring, small groups are operating on out-dated data and will be ineffective. It can feel like a significant amount of assessment, but remember that for your students it is only a few minutes out of the day. Assessment with mCLASS takes less time than F&P, BAS, DRA, TPRI, MAP, TELPAS, or various edtech tools. The more frequently you assess, the better students adjust and recall instructions, reducing your overall transition and assessment time.

• PM assessments occur between benchmark windows--if they overlap, you only complete the benchmark.
• Students should be assessed in time with completing intervention burst lessons if they are in intervention.
• PM assessments have the same instructions and platform as benchmark assessments, but use different forms and do not require teachers assess all assessments.
• Overall, progress monitoring should take a fraction of benchmarking time. You can figure out which works best for your campus and classroom but consider that it could be:
• Woven into other parts of the day such as between transitions or during independent work as it can be as short as 1 minute per student
• Take the place of a teacher table group once per week
• Be completed by support staff, RTs, TAs, etc.
• Does not have to be completed for all students at once. Half your class one week and half the next also meets all expectations for biweekly progress monitoring.

Do I need to progress monitor?Yes. For any students who are not above grade level, PM assessments are a network expectation and tracked.For any students above level, it is recommended you find some time to assess. Progress Monitoring is an imperative part of the data driven instruction cycle. Without consistent monitoring, small groups are operating on out-dated data and will be ineffective. It can feel like a significant amount of assessment, but remember that for your students it is only a few minutes out of the day. Assessment with mCLASS takes less time than F&P, BAS, DRA, TPRI, MAP, TELPAS, or various edtech tools. The more frequently you assess, the better students adjust and recall instructions, reducing your overall transition and assessment time.

• PM assessments occur between benchmark windows--if they overlap, you only complete the benchmark.
• Students should be assessed in time with completing intervention burst lessons if they are in intervention.
• PM assessments have the same instructions and platform as benchmark assessments, but use different forms and do not require teachers assess all assessments.
• Overall, progress monitoring should take a fraction of benchmarking time. You can figure out which works best for your campus and classroom but consider that it could be:
• Woven into other parts of the day such as between transitions or during independent work as it can be as short as 1 minute per student
• Take the place of a teacher table group once per week
• Be completed by support staff, RTs, TAs, etc.
• Does not have to be completed for all students at once. Half your class one week and half the next also meets all expectations for biweekly progress monitoring.

But what do I assess?

Do I need to progress monitor?Yes. For any students who are not above grade level, PM assessments are a network expectation and tracked.For any students above level, it is recommended you find some time to assess. Progress Monitoring is an imperative part of the data driven instruction cycle. Without consistent monitoring, small groups are operating on out-dated data and will be ineffective. It can feel like a significant amount of assessment, but remember that for your students it is only a few minutes out of the day. Assessment with mCLASS takes less time than F&P, BAS, DRA, TPRI, MAP, TELPAS, or various edtech tools. The more frequently you assess, the better students adjust and recall instructions, reducing your overall transition and assessment time.

• PM assessments occur between benchmark windows--if they overlap, you only complete the benchmark.
• Students should be assessed in time with completing intervention burst lessons if they are in intervention.
• PM assessments have the same instructions and platform as benchmark assessments, but use different forms and do not require teachers assess all assessments.
• Overall, progress monitoring should take a fraction of benchmarking time. You can figure out which works best for your campus and classroom but consider that it could be:
• Woven into other parts of the day such as between transitions or during independent work as it can be as short as 1 minute per student
• Take the place of a teacher table group once per week
• Be completed by support staff, RTs, TAs, etc.
• Does not have to be completed for all students at once. Half your class one week and half the next also meets all expectations for biweekly progress monitoring.

But what do I assess?

Do I need to assess mCLASS Intervention?

For the majority of teachers, the answer is 'No'. mCLASS intervention assessments provide additional information for mCLASS Intervention to group students and create highly targeted instructional plans (known as 'bursts'). If you are not utilizing mCLASS Intervention on your campus, you do not need to complete these assessments. If you are utilizing mCLASS Intervention, but a student scores on or above grade level, you do not need to complete these assessments. If you are utilizing mCLASS Intervention, a student scores below or well below grade level, and mCLASS recommends additional assessments be completed, you may decide to complete additional intervention measures.

Do I need to assess mCLASS Intervention?

For the majority of teachers, the answer is 'No'. mCLASS intervention assessments provide additional information for mCLASS Intervention to group students and create highly targeted instructional plans (known as 'bursts'). If you are not utilizing mCLASS Intervention on your campus, you do not need to complete these assessments. If you are utilizing mCLASS Intervention, but a student scores on or above grade level, you do not need to complete these assessments. If you are utilizing mCLASS Intervention, a student scores below or well below grade level, and mCLASS recommends additional assessments be completed, you may decide to complete additional intervention measures.

But what do I assess?