Aimsweb

Login

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What is your client ID # for Aimsweb?

30220

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What can you do if you forget your username or password to log in to Aimsweb?

Click on "forgot username/password"-login help

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How many chances do you have to log in correctly?

You are locked out after 5 unsuccessful attempts.

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Who can you contact for help if you get locked out of your account?

Your discipline rep

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How often do you need to reset your password?

Your password will expire every 60 days

Benchmark Materials

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I want to print out some benchmark probes. Which category on the toolbar should I choose? Benchmark? Monitor? Assess? Score? Students? Groups?

Score

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2 Part Question: a. Where can I find the "Help" button? b. What's "special" about the "Help" button?

a. Upper right hand corner of the page b. The information in the "Help" section changes based on where you are at in the program

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The Aimsweb Benchmark materials can be use to answer the ____________ question on evaluations and reevaluations.

Discrepancy Question

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You want to find some benchmark probes and you have already clicked on the heading "Score"----what will you click on next and where can you find this?

Click "Print Supporting Materials" found in the bottom right hand corner

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You are about to select the measures you want to use for your Benchmark probes and you see some options that have the letter "S" in front of them (S-OR, S-LN, etc.). What does the "S" tell us?

It's a Spanish version.

Benchmark Materials

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Where can I find the Answer Keys for the Benchmark Probes?

Go to "Score," "Print Supporting Materials," and select "Answer Keys" from the drop down menu.

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You are going to give the Spelling Benchmark Probe. Where would you find the student response sheet? Where would you find the answer key?

Student Response Sheet----Score-Print Supporting Materials, Print-Answer Key, Select Measure, Select Grade and Print Answer Key----Score-Print Supporting Materials, Print-Probe, Select Measure, Select Grade, and Print

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How is the administration of the ORAL READING probes different from any of the other probes?

You have to give the same three oral reading probes for fall, winter and spring.

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True or False: You are looking for the Writing Benchmark Probes so you go to Score, Print Supporting Materials, Print "Probes", Type-"Monitor" and select the measure and grade level followed by Print.

For the Writing Probes ONLY you will select "Monitor" and not "Benchmark" for the type of probe.

Benchmark Materials

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True or False. You will use the same story starters for all grades.

False. If you scroll down through the story starters, there is a section for use with older students.

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You need to find the directions for Administration and Scoring of the probes. Where can you find this?

Score, "Print Supporting Materials" "Other Supporting Materials" link for "Administration and Scoring Guidelines"---choose the guide you need and download

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True or False. You will administer 3 of every probe and record the median score as the Benchmark score.

False. This is only true for the Oral Reading Probe

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True or False. The Tests of Early Literacy and Tests of Early Numeracy are given in grades K, 1 and 2.

False. Only grades K-1 and only some of the probes are given at each level.

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You need to print out some Benchmark math application probes. How do you find them?

Score-Print Supporting Materials-Print Probe-Measure-MCAP, Select Grade Level and Probe

Benchmark and Norms

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You are looking for the MCOMP (math computation probe) for Spring of 4th grade. You have followed all of the correct steps and now you see three different probes for 4th grade MCOMP. Which one should you use for Spring?

The probes are numbered 1-2-3----for fall use 1, for winter use 2 and for spring use 3

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Which heading will you use to access norms?

Groups

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You are looking for norms and have checked on "Group" on the tool bar at the top of the page. What should you do next?

On the far left at the top, there is a drop down menu: "distribution report" or "norms table"----select "norms table"

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You are continuing with the steps to find the norms. You have selected Group on the tool bar at the top of the page and have selected "norms table" on the far left of the page. Next you will select your "measure" and also will select "national norms"-----what are your next three very important steps?

1. check the box 1-99th % rank 2. select your grade level or grade level range 3. click on the green arrow symbol to refresh

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On the norms table, you will see "ROI"---what does this stand for?

Rate of Improvement