DIBELS Benchmark Goals Three Assessment Periods Per Year ...

DIBELS Benchmark GoalsThree Assessment Periods Per YearFIRST GRADEBeginning of Year Middle of Year End of YearMonth 1 - 3 Month 4 - 6 Month 7 - 10DIBELS Measure Scores Status Scores Status Scores StatusLetter Naming 0 - 24 At riskFluency (LNF) 25 - 36 Some risk37 and above Low riskNot administered during this assessmentperiodNot administered during thisassessment periodPhoneme 0 - 9 Deficit 0 - 9 Deficit 0 - 9 DeficitSegmentation 10 - 34 Emerging 10 - 34 Emerging 10 - 34 EmergingFluency (PSF) 35 and above Established 35 and above Established 35 and above EstablishedNonsense Word 0 - 12 At risk 0 - 29 Deficit 0 - 29 DeficitFluency 13 - 23 Some risk 30 - 49 Emerging 30 - 49 Emerging(NWF-CLS) 24 and above Low risk 50 and above Established 50 and above EstablishedOral Reading 0 - 7 At risk 0 - 19 At riskNot administered during thisFluency (ORF)assessment period8 - 19 Some risk 20 - 39 Some risk20 and above Low risk 40 and above Low riskRetell Fluency(RTF)Not administered during thisassessment periodBENCHMARK GOALS FOR THIS MEASURE HAVE NOT YET BEEN ESTABLISHED.Preliminary evidence indicates that for students to be on track withcomprehension they should meet both of the following criteria: 1) meet the OralReading Fluency benchmark goal and 2) have a retell score of at least 25% oftheir Oral Reading Fluency score.Word UseFluency (WUF)BENCHMARK GOALS FOR THIS MEASURE HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.Tentatively, students in the lowest 20 percent of a school district using local norms should be considered at risk for poorlanguage and reading outcomes, and those between the 20th percentile and 40th percentile should be considered at somerisk.dibels.uoregon.edu© University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning. All rights reserved. Revision Date: July-31-2008