DIBELS NextIntroduction Webinar
Oregon Reading First Center
April 1, 2010
Materials reproduced with permission of Dynamic Measurement Group © 2010
Today’s Agenda
• Why use DIBELS Next?• New features
• DIBELS Next 7th Edition Overview• What Has Not Changed• Important Dates and Timelines• Recommendations and Things to Consider• DIBELS Data System Updates• Questions• Upcoming Training Opportunities
DIBELS Trivia• What year did the DIBELS Data System
start operating?• 1995
• 1998
• 1990
• 1993
• And with how many districts?• 3• 8• 5• 10
Why use DIBELS Next?
• Improved measures based on research and user feedback• New directions to facilitate students’
understanding• New content, including all new reading passages• Checklist of common response patterns to aid in
intervention planning• New scores for some measures to enhance
interpretation• New child-friendly font in grades K-2
New Directions to Aid Students’ Understanding
New Items and Content
• Items have been stratified in “layers” of difficulty so that items of all difficulties are randomly assorted throughout each measure• For example, in NWF, all vowels appear in each
line
• Purpose: To control the changes in difficulty from one probe to the next
• Also, all new ORF passages in grades 1-6 (goodbye, Keiko, Kwanzaa, and Shuffleboard!)
Checklist of Common Response Patterns
New Scores for Some Measures
• Nonsense Word Fluency• Whole Words Read (WWR): Student
receives credit for 1 WWR for each whole word read correctly without first being sounded out
• Oral Reading Fluency• Accuracy: Total words - Errors (includes
skipped words) = Words correct• Addition of accuracy to scoring/benchmark
goal
Child-Friendly Font
Why use DIBELS Next?
• New measures!• First Sound Fluency (replaces Initial Sound
Fluency)• DIBELS Daze (DIBELS-Maze) for grades
3-6
Why use DIBELS Next?• New research has been conducted over 4
years on over 25,000 children in over 90 schools• Use of new readability formula to level passages
and decrease variability of DORF scores• New reliability data• New validity data
• Prediction to NAEP and GRADE (K-6 outcome)
• New research on benchmark goals
• New user-friendly format• Easel format for published version• Larger booklet size for downloadable version
(available 5/17/10 from DMG at www.dibels.org)
DIBELS Next: 7th Edition Overview
• All measures have been updated with:• New directions• New items• New child-friendly font• New passages• New practice items• New format
• New look and feel of all materials
• New Measures• First Sound Fluency (FSF)• DIBELS Daze• DIBELS Survey• DIBELS Deep
• Retell is part of DORF• New benchmark goals
available for fall 2010 • Tentative date: 8/31/10
• WUF-R is available as an experimental measure
Redesigned Scoring Booklets: Benchmark Assessment Cover
• 1/2 legal size pages to provide more room for scoring and prompts.
• Integrated response patterns to facilitate linkage to instruction
• Directions are integrated in Student Materials
• Integrated reminders.
• Integrated scoring prompts.
Redesigned Scoring Booklets: Inside Benchmark Assessment• Larger fonts• Running totals for each
row on NWF and ORF• Common response
patterns
Redesigned Scoring Booklet: Progress Monitoring Cover
• Graph on front cover is larger and easier to use
• Horizontal axis is labeled with weeks so booklets can be easily used for out-of-grade-level monitoring
What Has Not Changed
• DIBELS Next are still:• Brief, standardized, repeatable indicators
of Basic Early Literacy Skills• Research-based• Used for universal screening, benchmark
assessment, progress monitoring, and systems evaluation
• Appropriate for use within a Response to Intervention model of service delivery
Important Dates & Timelines• DIBELS Next measures should be available
for download from the DMG website (http://dibels.org) by May 17, 2010 and available for purchase from Sopris West this spring
• Benchmark goals for DIBELS Next measures should be available by August 31, 2010
• Wireless Generation will be able to support DIBELS Next by fall 2011
Recommendations and Things to Consider
• DMG recommends NOT making the transition between DIBELS 6th edition-revised and Next measures during the middle of the school year• Schools in districts don’t have to transition all at
the same time, however, but may want to use a scaffolded adoption process (i.e., 5 schools one year, 5 schools the next)
Recommendations and Things to Consider
• DMG and the DIBELS Data System (DDS) will support DIBELS 6th edition-revised and DIBELS Next for 2 years (through the 2012-2013 school year)• Data will transfer forward with students, but
educators will need to remember when the transition was made
DIBELS Data System Updates
• DIBELS Data System will continue to provide download of and support for the current 6th Edition Revised and DIBELS Next for the 2010-2011 school year
• The first set of reports that will be available for DIBELS Next include: class lists, histograms, and data farming
• Access to the DDS for all Oregon schools (including those using IDEL) will continue to be free
• The DDS team is currently working on integrating easyCBM math measures into schools existing DDS accounts.
Upcoming Training Opportunities
• July 12th-15th• DIBELS Next Essential and Mentoring Trainings,
sponsored by DMG (Eugene, OR)
• August 18th & 20th• DIBELS Next Transition Workshop, sponsored
by the ORFC (Portland, OR)