CBM Universal Screening Protocol
The CBM-Universal Screening Protocol, also part of the FAST testing assessment package, is a one-minute oral reading assessment. Scoring is done by the teacher or the administrator of the protocol. Several measures result from this assessment, including median words read correctly, median errors per-minute, and overall percent accuracy. For purposes of this study, the measure of median number of words read correctly was used. The mean and standard deviation values are seen in Table 3. This seemed to show the most variation between children, both in the experimental and control group.
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The above results indicate that throughout the year the children in the control group, on the average, had a higher mean number of words read, during the CBM-R screening, than the children in the experimental group. Standard deviation values indicate that there appears to be less variation among the scores of children in the experimental group during the Winter and Spring assessment periods.
An analysis of variance showed much the same trend as for aReading, F (1,4) =.3539, p=583. Effect size calculations were: d=.230 for the Fall assessment; d=.150 for the Winter assessment, and d=.345 for the Spring assessment. The null hypothesis is accepted for CBM Universal Screening. Effect size values were small for this measure.