The Benchmark Report displays the most recent assessment a student has taken.
The Benchmark Report makes it easy to compare how students in a class are doing, relative to one another, and to general student populations by providing rankings on several metrics and scales. The Benchmark Report can be used to determine whole group, small group, and individual next steps.
Interactive Benchmark Report Walkthrough available here
Locate the Benchmark Report
1. From the Growth Dashboard, click Reports at the top left section of the screen
2. Select Benchmark Report
Metrics and Scales
Select the metrics and scales that help you best understand your students' reading performance or see which students are in need of help in a given dimension of reading ability. Students are ranked highest to lowest on each metric. If a student shows a status of unassessed we suggest going to the Assessment Status tile on your dashboard to view the student's assessment status.
Metrics
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Amira Reading Mastery: The ARM score is a norm referenced score expressed in relationship to grade level, that allows you to tell at a glance how a student is doing. Students will receive a score with a Grade (like 2 or 3) and a Month of Instruction (like 1 or 5). So, a student in the Third Grade who is reading at the 50th percentile in December would receive a score of about 3.5 (Grade 3 and month 5 of the school year).
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Oral Reading Fluency (ORF): A student’s ability to read aloud smoothly or with a natural ease.
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High Frequency Words: A student’s ability to recognize and correctly pronounce high frequency words.
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Phonological Awareness: Student’s ability to recognize and combine phonemes in different ways to produce words. It is a broadly defined skill that includes an awareness of word-sound correspondence, rhyming, and phonics.
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Vocabulary Size: The estimated number of words in a student’s expressive vocabulary; a measure of how many words the student can produce by speaking.
Scale
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Words Correct Per Minute: This metric is the number of words a student correctly articulates in a typical minute of oral reading. Only correct words count towards this measure of fluency.
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Developmental Reading Assessment: This metrics allows teachers to determine each student's instructional level for reading and provides a method for evaluating their individual reading growth over time.
Assessment Type Filter
Assessment Type is a filter you can use to determine whether you want to include both Progress Monitor activities and Benchmark Assessments or just Benchmark Assessments. By default, both are included.
Notes
- In addition to being able to adjust the Metric, Score Type, Scale, and Benchmark, you may also toggle the displayed results from English to Spanish and vice versa.
- You can click a student’s name in the Benchmark Report to be taken directly to the latest Benchmark Assessment or Progress Monitor’s audio recording.
- PR= Percentile Ranking, which is based on the student's performance compared to other students of the same age/grade.
- The PR (percentile rank) cut-points identify if students have reached the 25th, 50th or 75th percentiles.
- A student above 50% is on track
- If a student is below 50%, the student is tracking behind the normal growth of students nationally.
If you'd like to learn more about how to proceed when student Benchmark Scores don't match your expectations, read this article: What do I do when a student's scores seem off?