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The purpose of the DIBELS Benchmark goals is to provide educators with standards for gauging the progress of all students. The Benchmark goals represent minimum levels of performance for all students to reach in order to be considered on track for becoming a reader. The DIBELS goals and cut scores are research-based, criterion-referenced scores. They indicate the probability of achieving subsequent early literacy goals. Benchmark goals for each measure and time period were established using a minimum cut point at which the odds were in favor of a student achieving the next benchmark goal. For a score to be considered a benchmark goal, at least 80% to 85% of students in the sample with that score at that point in time had to achieve the next goal. So, for a child with a score at or above the benchmark goal at a given point, the probability is high for achieving the next goal; the probability of need for additional support to achieve the next goal is low.
All Kindergarten - 3rd grade students at North Crawford Elementary will take the DIBELS assessment three times a year. The individual results of this assessment are used to make curricular and instructional decisions.
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