mCLASS Assessment Guide

mCLASS Guide

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What is mCLASS?

mCLASS is an Amplify product that serves as an online platform for completing the DIBELS 8th edition assessment. It is a district expectation and satisfies a state requirement. mCLASS benchmark testing is used for our Early Reading Indicator, a state mandatory reporting assessment. The mCLASS benchmark also serves as the initial round of screening for our Dyslexia Screener and as such is a mandatory part of your 504/SST process.

Is anything different?

Compared to previous years, mCLASS is now expanding into K-5 because of the effectiveness we've seen with implementation in K-2. In SY23-24, teachers will also complete intervention assessments to allow access to mCLASS Intervention bursts, which simplify the small group process even further.

When is it due?

The BOY Benchmark window opens 8/7 and ends 9/15 and ALL scholars in K-5 should be tested unless they have written documentation of exemption from state level assessments (IEP, 504, BIP). The MOY Benchmark window opens 11/27 and ends 12/21 and ALL scholars in K-2 should be tested unless they have written documentation of exemption from state level assessments (IEP, 504, BIP). For scholars in 3-5, all scholars should be tested unless they performed at BENCHMARK LEVEL OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL at the BOY benchmark. The EOY Benchmark window opens 5/1 and ends 5/22 and ALL scholars in K-2 should be tested unless they have written documentation of exemption from state level assessments (IEP, 504, BIP). For scholars in 3-5, all scholars should be tested unless they performed at BENCHMARK LEVEL OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL at the BOY or MOY benchmark.

Why mCLASS?

Similar to MAP, mCLASS provides us with a benchmark assessment of a student's progress in foundational reading skills. Unlike MAP, mCLASS also analyzes data with small group instruction in mind, and then automatically groups students by areas of growth and then provides aligned resources for teachers to utilize in small group instruction. Finally, mCLASS also provides us with progress monitoring tools to enable consistent tracking and up-to-date understanding of a student's progress. Regular data is imperative for supporting student understanding. Without adequately assessing, teaching, and monitoring these skills, students will have significant difficulty in developing more advanced reading skills and struggle to access text on grade level.

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mCLASS Login Info

Benchmark

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Assessments

Analyze

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Data Diving

Instruct

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Burst Resources

Monitor

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Progress Monitoring

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Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th-5th Grade

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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.

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

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

This page covers grade specific benchmarking information only.For other topics, use this menu.

Students require a chromebook, computer, or ipad.

Teacher requires a guide page to assess students but there is no scholar writing. These assessment pages are available on schoology or linked on the bottom right of this page.

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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.

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Scoring

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

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

This page covers grade specific benchmarking information only.For other topics, use this menu.

Students require a chromebook, computer, or ipad.

Teacher requires a guide page to assess students but there is no scholar writing. These assessment pages are available on schoology or linked on the bottom right of this page.

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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.

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Analyze

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Administration

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

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

This page covers grade specific benchmarking information only.For other topics, use this menu.

Students require a chromebook, computer, or ipad.

Teacher requires a guide page to assess students but there is no scholar writing. These assessment pages are available on schoology or linked on the bottom right of this page.

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3rd Grade

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3rd 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.

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Scoring

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Administration

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

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

Scoring

Benchmark

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

Analyze

This page covers grade specific benchmarking information only.For other topics, use this menu.

Instruct

Monitor

3rd

Optional for 3rd grade but can populate dyslexia risk indicators if you assess scholars with this measure (in addition to other benchmarks). Needs to be enabled in the teacher online assessment management section.

Students require a chromebook, computer, or ipad.

Teacher requires a guide page to assess students but there is no scholar writing. These assessment pages are available on schoology or linked on the bottom right of this page.

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4th & 5th Grade

4th and 5th grade scholars require 1-3 minutes at the teacher table after completing Maze indepdently. 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.

Administration

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Maze

Administration

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

Scholars complete independently on a chromebook.

Intervention assessments as recommended. 1:1 with Teacher.

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

This page covers grade specific benchmarking information only.For other topics, use this menu.

Administration

Benchmark

Analyze

Instruct

Monitor

Scoring

4th-5th

Students require a chromebook, computer, or ipad.

Teacher requires a guide page to assess students but there is no scholar writing. These assessment pages are available on schoology or linked on the bottom right of this page.

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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.

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What about student logins? Click here.

Students log into classlink then amplify and complete self-guided benchmarks.
Teacher logs into classlink then amplify and pulls students individually.
Once composite score loads and intervention column says "Ready" you have finished assessing that student.
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Benchmark

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Assessments

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Benchmark Assessments are mandatory for state ERI and Dyslexia Reporting

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Students take computer based assessments.

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

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Teacher completes individual assessments.

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

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

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

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Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

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Benchmark

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Assessments

First...

Students take computer based assessments.

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

Benchmark

Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

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Assessments

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Logging In

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Teacher completes individual assessments.

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

Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

Benchmark

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Assessments

Letter Name Fluency

Phonemic Segementation Fluency

Nonsense Word Fluency

Word Reading Fluency

Oral Reading Fluency

Scoring

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Next...

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

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

Do I need to complete mCLASS Intervention?

Benchmark

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Assessments

Decoding Measures

Irregular Words
Regular Words
Letter Combinations
Advanced Phonics

Comprehension Skills

Vocabulary - Optional

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READ ME:

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 A: Benchmarks

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The Progress DashboardProgress 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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Part B: Progress

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mCLASS Instruction ToolsInstructional 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 A: Instruction Tools

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mCLASS InterventionmCLASS 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 B: Intervention

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mCLASS Home ConnectmCLASS 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.

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Part C: Home Connect

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

mCLASS - Non Intervention

Progress Monitoring is recommended by the system.

Do I need to progress monitor?

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Progress Monitoring

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

Progress Monitor Biweekly

mCLASS Intervention

Progress Monitoring is specified at the end of the burst.

Videos on mclass assessments

videos on intervention assessments

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How often do I Progress Monitor?

No recommendation?

Do I need to progress monitor?

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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.

Letter Name Fluency

Phonemic Segementation Fluency

Nonsense Word Fluency

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Scoring

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Word Reading Fluency

Oral Reading Fluency

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Monitor

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Progress Monitoring

Then Intervention Measures as recommended

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Do I need to progress monitor?

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.

Do I have to complete all of the assesments?

Click to access benchmark and PM forms.

Decoding Measures

Irregular Words
Regular Words
Letter Combinations
Advanced Phonics

Comprehension Skills

Administration

Vocabulary - Optional

Administration

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Monitor

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Progress Monitoring

Help and FAQ

My iHELP hasn't received any response!

For all mCLASS related issues, reach out directly to Justin Hassan - jhassan@Uplifteducation.org iHELP tickets will eventually be addressed but can have longer lead times for mCLASS specific issues. Please provide as many details as you can to facilitate troubleshooting.

Where can I find the testing documents?

All assessment pages are in the same packet. You can locate the correct assessment using the BOY.MOY.EOY marker at the bottom of each page. These assessment pages are available on schoology under your grade level page, or on google drive (Uplift account only). Should you encounter issues accessing Schoology or Google Drive, please open an iHelp ticket under Educational Technology.

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

You can practice assessing on the amplify site. PracticeIntroduction Each of the links below launches a video of a student being assessed. Select the difficulty level you feel is appropriate for your...Amplify In this set of independent practices, you will access audios (in video form) of students responding to the DIBELS assessments. Please focus on the assessments in which you feel you need the most practice. Acting as the assessor, score the student with fidelity. The answer key is located in the final seconds of the video. To prepare, locate your: mobile device mCLASS username with its demo (practice) class Username: txdemo48 Password: 1234 DIBELS 8 Prompts (under Assessment Administration heading) mCLASS Scoring Rules Summary tables (under Assessment Administration heading) To use your demo class, log in on your mobile device. In the drop-down menu at top right, select the Demo class. These students are not real students; you can use this class at any time to practice administration of the assessments.

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

All rostering questions are handled individually. Reach out to Justin Hassan - jhassan@Uplifteducation.org If you are a TA, Interventionist, Teacher, or Dean, email Justin Hassan with information regarding the classes you need access to. Classes are identified by the teacher of record that they are rostered to in power school. Please include the grade level and teacher name.

- What this looks like: "My name is Kelley Smythe and I need access to Ms. Charles' 2nd grade class to assess those students since she is on leave."

If the class is being taught currently by a TA or you are unsure who the class is officially rostered under, instead include the names of the first three students on that class roster. - What this looks like: "My name is Johnathan Dang and my dean says I need access to the other kinder class--I'm not sure who the teacher is but the first three kids on the roster are Alina Abbas, Markie Ang, and Luke Birch."

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

All rostering questions are handled individually. Reach out to Justin Hassan - jhassan@Uplifteducation.org If a student is on your roster incorrectly in powerschool and needs to be changed, speak with your dean or director. If a student is rostered correctly in powerschool but incorrectly in mCLASS, reach out to Justin Hassan with that information including the student ID and name and the classes in question. Be sure to CC your dean and the teacher of the other class. Adding New StudentsRemoving Unenrolled StudentsInclude information regarding the student name and ID in powerschool. If they are not yet rostered in powerschool, they are not yet able to be synch'd into mCLASS.If they are in powerschool, reach out to Justin Hassan with their name and ID.If a student is unenrolled but still appears on your roster, your dean needs to confirm their unenrollment with Justin Hassan in order to have them removed.

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

Follow specific instructions in your grade level page to have a better understanding of which assessments you need to complete. The "complete" indicator only matters for mCLASS Intervention placement, which may show as complete without any intervention assessments being given for some students, even before completing all DIBELs Assessments necessary for the benchmark composite scores to populate. The "complete" indicator does not exempt you from completing the remaining benchmark assessments .

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

If assessments were completed but your student data isn't populating in your dashboard, you may need to sync your device. The sync button is at the top right of the assessments screen. Synchronization takes a few moments and data is available immediately to teacher dashboards but may take up to 24 hours to populate in administrator reports for Deans/Directors/Managing Directors. Please note: Data is stored locally. If the testing was completed on a separate device, that device is the one that requires synchronization in order for data to populate.

I can't find the answer to my question!

Support for mCLASS assessments and tools is available. If you cannot find answers in the provided training, reach out directly to Justin Hassan - jhassan@Uplifteducation.org Please provide as many details as you can to facilitate troubleshooting.

Benchmark

Assessments

Analyze

Data Diving

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Burst Resources

Monitor

Progress Monitoring

Benchmark Assessments occur 3x per year

mCLASS automatically groups students

Daily small groups using provided lessons

Progress monitor biweekly to gather new data

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.

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But what do I assess?

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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.

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.

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But what do I assess?

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?

But what do I assess?

mCLASS Assessment Guide

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