Monitoring Progress-Curriculum Based Management for Math (CBM).
CBM is standardized so that the behaviors to be measured and the procedures for measuring those behaviors are prescribed and have been shown to be reliable and valid. Also, each weekly test is of equivalent difficulty and represents what the teacher wants the student to be able to do well at the end of the year. Each week, the teacher administers one test by having the student read aloud from a different passage for 1 minute; the score is the number of words read correctly. Each simple, brief assessment produces an indicator of overall reading competence (Fuchs, Fuchs, Hosp, & Jenkins, 2001). Because each CBM test at a given grade level is of equivalent difficulty, a teacher can graph a student’s weekly scores and directly compare the student’s test scores collected at different times during the year.
