Curriculum Based Measurement is useful when administered correctly. It is important that students are given a quite space that has no distractions. The first module that was an Overview of Individual Administration, was something that I have seen done in classrooms before. The Phoneme segmentation was the hardest to do, because the directions were not clear on how you scored the student. Eventually I figured it out, but it took me a couple of times of trial and error. Refreshing my memory on how to correctly administer the testing was a good experience, but it was something that I had done before.
Although I think this is an important tool to use, I have found that our classes that we are learning at Grand Valley give us experience in these topics already. Our assessment course gave us practice on these tutorials. For me personally, I do not think I would ask the district to fund the extra licenses for this. There are plenty of other ways that the district can spend their money and this is something that teachers who need to use, should already be proficient in if they were even hired in the first place. Now I know this is not logical to assume that every teacher would have been proficient in administering testing, but at least if the district were higher a special education teacher, one would hope that they have a solid understanding on how to administer testing.
