- Assessment
- mCLASS:DIBELS/IDEL
- Funding
mCLASS®:DIBELS® Next - Funding
mCLASS:DIBELS Next and mCLASS:IDEL meet the requirements in major funding guidelines for early literacy.
Title I
| Guideline | mCLASS DIBELS |
|---|---|
| Identify children who may be at risk of reading failure or who are having difficulty reading through the use of screening, diagnostic, and classroombased instructional reading assessments | mCLASS:DIBELS, using mobile technology, helps teachers administer these assessments efficiently and reliably. Using data profiles and grouping tools, teachers can accurately diagnose the risk of reading failure and make appropriate instructional plans. |
| Provide assistance to individual students assessed as needing help in meeting challenging state academic achievement standards |
The mCLASS®:Now What?® Tools perform detailed item-level diagnostics to identify error patterns and recommend instructional activities for individual students and small-group instruction. Links to the most widely used basal programs help drive classroom instruction on individual student data. Using these tools, teachers are better equipped to provide the right instruction to each student. |
| Administer formative assessment and progress monitoring to help disadvantaged children reach proficiency |
Teachers are able to check student performance and progress frequently using the mCLASS® system. Progress monitoring takes only a few minutes and provides valuable real-time information on learning trajectories. |
| Provide greater decision making authority and flexibility to schools and teachers |
mCLASS:DIBELS helps educators make informed instructional decisions for individual students, small groups, and whole classes. Coaches and principals can use the data to support regular data-driven conversations about student achievement and realign resources to meet student needs. In Wireless Generation’s professional services offerings, teachers use real-time student data as provided in online reports to learn how to identify student strengths and weaknesses and discover how to differentiate instruction accordingly. They also learn to use progress monitoring data to refine small groups and continue to target instruction appropriately. Principals and other leaders learn how to access high-level reports and use data to make important instructional and managerial decisions—promoting an important cultural shift in the school. |
| Provide children an enriched and accelerated educational program, including additional services that increase the amount and quality of instructional time |
Students are enriched and accelerated when they are taught at their "learning frontier." The mCLASS system helps each teacher identify and teach to that frontier. Wireless Generation professional services are tailored to meet the needs of teachers and administrators with practice activities organized around actual student data. During these sessions, participants learn strategies for increasing the value of each instructional moment, which can be applied to individual, small group, and whole class instruction. |
Title II, Part D Enhancing Education through Technology
| Guideline | mCLASS DIBELS |
|---|---|
| Promote initiatives that provide teachers, principals, and administrators with the capacity to integrate technology into curricula and instruction |
mCLASS:DIBELS® supports early reading teaching and learning in classrooms and fuses scientifically validated indicators of reading development across curricula and instruction. Wireless Generation professional services are tailored to meet the needs of teachers with practice activities organized around student data. Professional services engagements are centered around analyzing frequently collected formative assessment data to differentiate instruction (at the teacher level), improve instructional leadership (at the principal level), and make more effective support, curriculum, and resource decisions (at the administrator level). |
| Incorporate teacher education, professional development, and curriculum development and how the state will work to ensure that teachers and principals receiving funds under this part are technologically literate |
mCLASS:DIBELS utilizes handheld-to-Web technology, unlimited progress monitoring, and real-time Web reporting and analysis to help educators make informed instructional decisions for individual students, small groups, and whole classes through a streamlined and accurate formative assessment tool. In Wireless Generation’s professional services offerings, teachers use real-time student data as provided in online reports to learn how to identify student strengths and weaknesses and discover how to differentiate instruction accordingly. They also learn to use progress monitoring data to refine small groups and continue to target instruction appropriately. Principals and other leaders learn how to access high-level reports and use data to make important instructional and managerial decisions—promoting an important cultural shift in the school. |
