DIBELS Next Introduction Webinar Oregon Reading First Center

Today’s Agenda • Why use DIBELS Next? • New features • • DIBELS Next 7 th 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: 7 th 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 outof-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 6 th editionrevised 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 6 th edition-revised and DIBELS Next for 2 years (through the 20122013 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 6 th 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 easy. CBM math measures into schools existing DDS accounts.

Upcoming Training Opportunities • July 12 th-15 th • DIBELS Next Essential and Mentoring Trainings, sponsored by DMG (Eugene, OR) • August 18 th & 20 th • DIBELS Next Transition Workshop, sponsored by the ORFC (Portland, OR)