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Curriculum-Based Measurement: Sample Measures and Norms
CBM Type	Online CBM Application	CBM Directions & Norms
CBM: Letter Name Fluency & Letter Sound Fluency	Letter Name Fluency Generator	LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms
CBM: Oral Reading Fluency	Reading Passage Generator	*Updated ORF Norms: Hasbrouck & Tindal, 2017* Oral Reading Fluency: Directions & Norms
C BM: Maze Passages (Comprehension)	Maze Passage Generator	Maze: Directions & Norms
CBM: Early Math Fluency	Early Math Fluency Generator	Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms
CBM: Math Computation	Math Worksheet Generator	Math Computation: Directions & Norms
CBM: Written Expression	Writing Probe Generator	Writing: Directions & Norms

This page is your 'one-stop' destination for free Curriculum-Based Measurement resources on the Internet. Browse the page to find CBM materials to conduct school-wide screenings and monitor student progress. Or review one of the featured manuals to learn how to use CBMs in schools and to interpret the results to make good RTI decisions.

Early Reading Measures
Reading Fluency & Comprehension Measures
Early Mathematics Measures
Math Computation & Math Concepts and Applications Measures
Written Expression Measures
Graphing Options
CBM Norms
CBM Manuals
CBM Forms
CBM Pay Sites

Early Reading Measures

Access measures to track foundation reading skills

Letter Name and Dolch Word List Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials in these early reading skill areas:

Letter Naming/Sound Fluency Using English and Spanish Alphabets
Dolch Word List Fluency

DIBELS Early Reading Probes: The DIBELS [Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills] website has materials for administering and scoring a range of early reading skills. DIBELS also includes performance benchmarks. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them. DIBELS early reading measures include:

Initial Sound Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation
Letter Naming Fluency
Nonsense Word Fluency

EasyCBM Early Reading Probes: The easycbm.com website has several types of early reading probes. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so. Available measures include:

Phoneme Segmentation
Letter Naming Fluency
Letter Sound Fluency
Word Identification Fluency

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Reading Fluency & Comprehension Measures

Assess reading fluency and comprehension

Custom ORF and Maze Passage Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials for reading fluency &comprehension:

Oral Reading Fuency Probes: Oral Reading Fluency probes assess students' proficiency in reading connected text. Users can type or paste text into the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Probe Generator to create materials in pdf format to monitor student accuracy and fluency as they read aloud.
Maze Passage Fluency Probes: Maze (multiple-choice Cloze) passages are used to track student growth in basic reading comprehension. The Maze Passage Generator allows the user to type or paste in text and then quickly create a Maze passage in pdf format.

DIBELS Reading Fluency Materials: The DIBELS website has leveled passages to assess Oral Reading Fluency. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them.

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Early Mathematics Measures

Access measures to track foundation math skills

NumberFly Early Math Probes. Schools can use the NumberFly application to generate Early Math Fluency assessments to track 'number sense' in young children (grades K & 1). The application has three customizable forms to create Early Math Fluency probes.

Quantity Discrimination
Missing Number
Number Identification

Early Numeracy Measures: Drs. Erica Lembke of the University of Missouri and Anne Foegen of Iowa State University have developed updated versions of Early Numeracy Measures. You can obtain their most recent Early Numeracy Measures screening materials, technical reports, and a user agreement (all for free) online at the Research Institute on Progress Monitoring.

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Math Computation & Math Concepts and Applications Measures

Find assessments to track proficiency in computation skills and higher-level math skills

Custom Math Computation Worksheets: Use the Math Worksheet Generator application to create custom CBM math computation worksheets in:

Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Mixed Computation Skills

SuperKids Advanced Computation Worksheets: The SuperKids.com website has an application that can generate more advanced math computation worksheets, including:

Fractions
Percentages
Rounding
Averages
Exponents
Factorials

Math Concepts & Applications Probes: The EasyCBM website has a series of math probes that are based on Math Focal Points from the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so.

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Written Expression Measures

Create probes to track student development of writing skills

Writing Probe Generator: Use the Writing Probe Generator from Intervention Central to create custom CBM writing probes in pdf format. The application allows the user to enter their own story starter or select a story starter from the site.

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Graphing Options

Use these resources to create visual displays of CBM data

Paper Graphing Forms: Educators can download a series of per-formatted paper CBM graph forms from Intervention Central:

Reading : 0 to 40:12 wks
Math : 0 to 40:12 wks
Writing : 0 to 40:12 wks
Blank : 0 to 40:12 wks
Additional Page : 0 to 40:12 wks
Reading : 0 to 80:12 wks
Math : 0 to 80:12 wks
Writing : 0 to 80:12 wks
Blank : 0 to 80:12 wks
Additional Page : 0 to 80:12 wks
Reading : 0 to 140:12 wks
Writing : 0 to 140:12 wks
Blank : 0 to 140:12 wks
Additional Page : 0 to 140:12 wks

On-Line Graphing: Use ChartDog, an online CBM application from www.interventioncentral.org that allows you to generate progress-monitoring time-series graphs.

Excel Graphs: Download several Excel spreadsheets from Dr. Jim McDougal that have been pre-formatted to allow you to enter data and to create time-series graphs for CBM measures.

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CBM Norms

Norms can provide schools with criteria for judging student success on CBM tasks

Oral Reading Fluency: 90 Years of Measurement. These Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)research norms from Hasbrouck & Tindal (2005) may be helpful for schools, as they can be used to set performance benchmarks for students. And click here to view a summary of these ORF norms from UCONN in an easily accessible one-page format.

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CBM Manuals

These guides provide guidelines for administering, scoring, and interpreting CBM measures

CBM Modules from the National Center on RTI and Center on Student Progress Monitoring: A collection of manuals and presentation materials for using CBM can be found on the websites of the National Center on RTI and the National Center on Student Progress-Monitoring . The manuals include the following titles:

Introduction to CBM for Progress-Monitoring
Using CBM for Progress-Monitoring in Reading
Using CBM for Progress-Monitoring in Written Expression and Spelling
Using CBM for Progress-Monitoring in Math
Using CBM to Determine Response to Intervention

CBM Manuals from AIMSweb . The commercial AIMSweb CBM site has a series of very thorough and well-formatted CBM manuals on a full range of measures. For each link below, click on the 'Scoring Guide' tag to access the free manuals:

Test of Early Literacy-CBM Manual
Early :Literacy: Spanish (MIDE)-CBM Manual
Reading Comprehension (Maze)-CBM Manual
Test of Early Numeracy-CBM Manual
Math-Compuation-CBM Manual
Spelling-CBM Manual
Written Expression -CBM Manual
Oral Reading Fluency-CBM Manual

Curriculum-Based Measurement: A Manual for Teachers This manual from Intervention Central provides an introduction to CBM and its use in schools.

CBM & English Language Learners: This document provides a brief introduction to CBMs and their use with English Language Learners. Also included are directions in Spanish for Letter Reading Fluency, Math Computation, Passage Reading, and Written Expression. The guide was written by Dr. Seth Aldrich, a bilingual school psychologist and RTI trainer.

Short Sets of CBM Directions: Intervention Central presents these streamlined sets of directions for CBM:

Reading: Oral Reading Fluency
Math Computation
Writing: Total Words, Correctly Spelled Words, Correct Writing Sequences
Spelling

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CBM Forms

These forms can help schools to organize CBM data

CBM Data Collection Forms: These forms from Intervention Central can help schools to collect and organized CBM data.

Reading: Oral Reading Fluency
Math Computation
Writing: Correct Writing Sequences
Letter Identification
Number Identification
Word List Identification

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CBM Pay Sites

These websites have CBM materials available for purchase

AIMSweb This pay site (http://www.aimsweb.com) includes CBM assessments in reading, math, spelling, and writing. The early reading measures assess phonemic awareness and alphabetic. The site also has measures in oral reading fluency and Maze passages. In math, the AIMSweb site offers early math fluency, math computation, and concepts and applications probes. In addition, the site contains writing and spelling assessments. AIMSweb also provides options to schools to order printed sets of assessment materials, computer and software tools for efficient data capture, and web-based management of CBM data.
EasyCBM The EasyCBM site (www.easycbm.com) contains an array of reading and math CBM assessments and is free to individual teachers. Schools and districts can purchase services from the site, with the cost calculated yearly based on student enrollment. The reading section of the site contains assessment distributed across the appropriate grade levels for Phoneme Segmenting, Letter Names, Letter Sounds, Word Reading Fluency, Passage Reading Fluency, Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension. The site also has math assessments for grades K-8 based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. These assessments are described on by the developers as testing 'conceptual understanding' rather than basic computational fluency. Teachers can enter and store student assessment data on the site, generate progress monitoring charts, and aggregate the results of numbers of students to create charts depicting group or class performance.
EdCheckup This site (http://www.edcheckup.com) provides commercial measures of reading, writing, and math, as well as student data management options. To track literacy skills, EdCheckup has two beginning reading assessment: letter sounds and isolated words. The site also measures more advanced reading skills through oral reading fluency and Maze passage probes. There are four options offered in writing assessment: sentence copying, sentence dictation, paragraph dictation, and written expression. Math probes assess computation, using a 'cloze math' format. EdCheckup also offers schools and districts the option of entering their student CBM data online and generating screening and progress-monitoring reports and graphs.
STEEP The STEEP (System to Enhance Educational Performance-- http://www.isteep.com) website offers commercial CBM products. Its products include both reading and math CBM measures. The site has CBM early literacy, oral reading fluency and Maze passages that span grades 1-12. In math, STEEP includes early math skills, math computation assessments, measures based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Concepts and Applications measures for secondary grades. Schools and districts can purchases assessments separately or can pay a fee based on student enrollment for more comprehensive services, including web-based data management.

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