BRIGANCE CIBS–R

CIBS–R may be used as a criterion-referenced or a norm-referenced assessment tool.

Criterion-referenced assessment

CIBS–R meets the following assessment objectives:

• identify present levels of academic achievement and functional performance
• connect assessment with instruction
• monitor and report progress for IEPs

Features/Benefits:

• grade-placement tests in key skill areas
• pretests and post tests for many skills
• 150+ skills assessments
• reproducible assessments for group administration
• supplemental and related skill sequences to facilitate instructional planning
• Aligns with state and national standards

Assessment Components:

• CIBS–R Inventory
  • directions for administration, assessor pages, student pages, comprehensive and supplemental skill sequences
• Student Record Book
  • tracks and records assessments administered, responses, progress, and instructional objectives
• Class Record Book
  • matrix of skills assessed, mastered, and objectives for group of 30 students
• Student Profile Test Booklet
  • student pages for grade placement tests, Forms A and B
  • used to determine need for further assessment, to collect placement data, or as alternate assessment
• Goals and Objectives on CD
  • create lists of CIBS–R goals and objectives to save, print, or export into IEP forms

Standardized assessment

As a standardized assessment tool, CIBS–R may be used to identify students' strengths and weaknesses and obtain data to support referrals

Features/Benefits:

• identifies children with learning disabilities, giftedness, or other exceptionalities with the diagnostic portion of the battery
• produces grade and age equivalents, percentiles, and quotients in I.D.E.A.-designated achievement areas
• Meets state and national assessment requirements

Assessment Components:
For standardized testing, in addition to components noted above for criterion-referenced assessment:

• Standardization and Validation Manual
  • summary of standardized study
  • administration procedures and conversion charts
• Scoring Conversion CD
  • calculates chronological age
  • converts raw scores to quotients, percentiles, age equivalents, and instructional ranges
  • includes Standardization and Validation Manual
• Screener Test Booklet, Grades 1–6
  • simplifies screening with assessor and student pages for reading comprehension, sentence writing, and math computation-eliminates need to reproduce Inventory pages
• Standardized Scoring Sheets Readiness or Grades 1–6
  • on triplicate forms for recording raw scores, quotients, percentiles, grade equivalents, and instructional ranges to share with staff and parents

Validity and Reliability information can be found here.

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This is much better organized and way more comprehensive than many of the other instruments I have used in the past. It is ideal for tracking student progress and gives classroom teachers and specialists objective information to share with parents.

Caron Lye, North Carolina