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FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, professionals have relied on BRIGANCE® Inventories to: • identify performance levels
• maintain a systematic, easily interpretable history of children’s assessments
• set instructional goals • report progress
and now, more than ever... meet alternate assessment mandates
BRIGANCE Inventories Meet Your Assessment Needs.
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Meet state and federal mandates, including NCLB and I.D.E.A. Download correlations to your state standards at www.CurriculumAssociates.com
Ongoing Assessment Assess with BRIGANCE Inventories to: •
identify present levels of performance in specific skill areas
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connect assessment with basic skills instruction
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measure progress against instructional goals
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customize reports for individuals and groups
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disaggregate data by subgroups and report results in the aggregate
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facilitate ongoing data management, reporting, and instructional planning
Alternate Assessment BRIGANCE Inventories: •
engage students with persistent academic disabilities and the most significant cognitive disabilities
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implement uniform assessment district-wide
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support portfolio data
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Alternate Assessment Today, NCLB’s high-stakes accountability and new I.D.E.A. regulations make it critical to appropriately assess all students. Reliable and valid, BRIGANCE® Inventories help educators: •
measure progress on outcomes specific to instructional needs
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document student learning from baseline to benchmarks with a consistent format for all educational providers
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improve instructional effectiveness by using alternate assessment not only to document what a student has learned, but to enhance and extend learning
“The BRIGANCE assessment results have assisted the interdisciplinary team in creating meaningful goals related to the New York
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create meaningful IEP goals that align with state standards
State Learning Standards
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provide evidence of performance to support portfolio data
for Students with Severe
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facilitate analysis and reporting with Web-based data management
Disabilities.” —Francine Dreyfus, ”Uniform Assessment for All Students in Alternate Assessment,” Today’s School, January/February 2005.
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Ongoing Assessment IED–II and CIBS–R help you:
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identify performance levels
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set instructional goals
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report progress
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maintain a systematic, easily interpretable history of children’s assessments
Inventory of Early Development–II (IED–II) Developmental age birth–7 The IED–II serves as both a diagnostic instrument and criterion-referenced classroom assessment, with new features: normed/standardized option for key skill areas
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updated developmental age references
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additional social-emotional assessments
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expanded functional skills sequences for assessing incremental gains
Readiness: Strategies and Practice Correlated to IED–II and the Readiness section of CIBS–R, this BRIGANCE® teaching component’s early childhood activities link assessment with instruction. A comprehensive curriculum resource, it also provides a wealth of information, techniques, and references to strengthen the readiness skills of children developmental ages 3–6. Make family-to-school connections with:
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Grades pre-K–1
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▲ IED–II Goals and Objectives CD, Scoring Conversion CD, and Management System, page 7.
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Correlated Instruction
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reproducible letters to families
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reproducible learning plans
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read-to-me book list
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“Using the BRIGANCE gives a very clear picture of progress from one test date to the next. The use of different colors for each test administration easily highlights for teachers and parents the growth of the child. I also enjoy being able to show students the progress they have made. The different colors make it easy for the students to see how much they have learned.” —Janet Rioux, Educator
Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills–Revised (CIBS–R)
Assessment of Basic Skills– Revised, Spanish Edition (ABS–R)
Grades pre-K–9
Grades pre-K–9
The CIBS–R is a valuable resource for programs serving
Easy to use, with no specialized training required, the
students with special needs and continues to be
ABS–R is a useful tool for assessment, diagnosis, and
indispensable in IEP development, program planning,
screening of Spanish-speaking students, to:
and management of basic skills instruction. CIBS–R keeps pace with today’s assessment needs by:
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determine a student's language dominence
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differentiate between students' language proficiency and learning difficulties
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combining criterion-referenced assessment with normed/standardized test option for key skill areas
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identify present level of performance
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develop goals and objectives for a student's IEP
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offering 154 assessments from readiness to academic
Newly revised to reflect current educational research
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providing pre- and post grade-placement testing
▲ CIBS–R Goals and Objectives CD, Scoring Conversion CD, and Management System, page 7.
and practices, the assessment has: •
expanded skill areas
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skills correlated to those in the CIBS–R
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updated reading passages
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Dominant Language Screening Forms
▲ More Inventories, page 6.
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Develop transition goals to meet I.D.E.A. requirements.
Life Skills Inventory (LSI) Secondary Special Ed, Vocational, ESL Programs Grades 2–8
Employability Skills Inventory (ESI) Secondary Special Ed, Vocational, ESL Programs Grade 3–HS
Assess listening, speaking, reading, writing, computing, and comprehension skills within
This criterion-referenced tool assesses basic
the context of everyday situations:
job-seeking or employment skills such as:
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words on common signs and warning labels
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reading grade-placement
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telephone
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career awareness and self-understanding
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money and finance
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preemployment writing
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health
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math skills and concepts, and others
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and others
▲ LSI and ESI Goals and Objectives CDs and Management Systems, page 7.
Check out this inventory at www.CurriculumAssociates.com: Inventory of Essential Skills—Academic and survival skills for secondary-level special ed
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“Using the CIBS–R Management System is simple, due to its intuitive and logical design, on-screen prompts and help, and the excellent (downloadable) manual. This is an outstanding, easy-to-use product. I recommend it for anyone involved with children in special education situations, or with students being considered for special ed. Outstanding!” —MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, September 2004, with permission of Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ 08055, 609-654-6266, www.infotoday.com
Data-driven Decision Making
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Management Systems: IED–II, CIBS–R, LSI, or ESI
and details.
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online record books maintain easily interpretable histories of learner assessments
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goals and objectives for each criterion-referenced assessment may be exported for IEPs
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progress reports measure progress against instructional goals and aid in evaluations
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security is ensured with password-protection
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IED–II and CIBS–R Systems include standardized scoring—accurate computation of raw data for individuals or groups
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Software to facilitate scoring and IEP preparation IED–II or CIBS–R Scoring Conversion CD with Standardization and Validation Manual Automatically converts raw scores and computes chronological age.
Goals and Objectives Writer CD for IED–II, CIBS–R, LSI, ESI, or IES Create lists of goals and objectives. Save, edit, print, or export to your school’s IEP forms.
Online Data Form
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“The CIBS–R is an excellent tool for diagnostic-prescriptive teaching. I have used [it] in due process hearing testimony to document that appropriate instruction is being designed to ensure educational benefit since the CIBS–R directly ties assessment to general education standards in our state. One thing I always tell teachers is that the CIBS–R is an assessment and instructional tool that should not sit on the shelf and just be used once a year!” —Laura L. Mohr, Ed.D., Psycho-Educational Specialist
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Keeping pace with today’s requirements for ongoing assessment, instruction, and reporting. ALBERT BRIGANCE Formerly a school psychologist, a classroom teacher in
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both regular and cognitive-challenged classrooms, and Coordinator of Program Specialists and Educational Assessment Services for the Humboldt-Del Norte counties under the California Special Education Master Plan, Albert Brigance brings more than 20 years experience in education to the creation of these instruments. He has taught courses in the exceptional child, early childhood education, curriculum development, and instructional objectives development.
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