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Phonological Awareness Skills Screener (PASS)

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Phonological Awareness Skills Screener (PASS)

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When Specialized Assessment Services are Needed, California's Diagnostic Centers Can Help

Unique to California, the Diagnostic Centers are the California Department of Education's foremost providers of specialized services and assistance to special education students, their families, and local education agencies (LEAs). The Diagnostic Center Teams are committed to providing a quality service that makes a positive difference for students, their families, and educators.

Established more than 50 years ago, the Diagnostic Centers provide high quality assessments to hundreds of students each year, as well as professional development opportunities for families and educators throughout the state.

California's three Diagnostic Centers, located in Fremont, Fresno, and Los Angeles, can help LEAs with their most difficult-to-serve special education students ages 2.9 through 22 years. These services are provided at no charge to the LEA or family.

Referrals may be made by the school district when:

A student is not making progress, even after all local resources have been used.

A student has complex behavioral and/or learning profiles, in addition to assessment needs that cannot be addressed locally.

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Providing Comprehensive, In-Depth Assessments

Dynamic, Transdisciplinary Process

Each assessment is carefully planned and is:

Highly individualized

Guided by a set of educationally relevant diagnostic questions

Designed to support the local district by providing specialized strategies, interventions, and programming options.

Conducted by a team of experts

Assessment in a Variety of Settings

A student may be assessed in the school, at the Center, or in a combination of both environments.

Parents as Partners

Collaboration with parents is an essential, highly valued, and integral part of the assessment process. Parents assume an active role in the team process through input into the referral questions, participation in portions of the assessment, and extensive interviews with Diagnostic Center assessment staff.

Sharing Assessment Results

After completion of the assessment, Diagnostic Center staff members meet with families and school staff to share assessment findings, including practical teaching strategies and interventions. In addition, the district and parents receive a comprehensive written report.

Linking Assessment Results With Instruction

Consultation and Instructional Support

The Diagnostic Center offers a variety of consultative and/or technical assistance services to school staff to assist with students who have been previously served by the Diagnostic Center.

Additional Services

Regional Workshops, Conference Presentations

Each Diagnostic Center offers state-of-the-art professional development and training programs for both district staff and parents. These presentations and workshops are typically prescheduled through regional workshops and in-services, presentations at major state and national professional conferences, and sponsorship of major conferences on a regional or statewide basis.

For More Information

Each Diagnostic Center offers a detailed information packet describing its services. For more information or to discuss the possibility of a specific referral, please contact the Diagnostic Center within your service delivery area. Contact information is below.

Diagnostic Center

Counties Served

Northern California
39100 Gallaudet Drive
Fremont, CA 94538
510-794-2500

Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Lake, Sutter, Yuba, Placer, Nevada, Sonoma, Napa, Sacramento, El Dorado, Solano, Alpine, Marin, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Mid Alameda, North Region, Mission Valley, Tri Valley, Southeast Consortium, Oakland, San Ramon Valley, Sacramento City, Folsom Cordova, San Juan, Sutter, and Yolo.

Central California
1818 West Ashlan Avenue
Fresno, CA 93705
559-243-4047

San Luis Obispo, Northern Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Colusa, and Amador.

Southern California
4339 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
323-222-8090

Mono, Inyo, southern Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial.

Available Translations of Diagnostic Centers Information
Questions: State Special Schools and Services | 916-327-3850

Last Reviewed: Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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Unique to California, the Diagnostic Centers are the California Department of Education's foremost providers of specialized services and assistance to special education students, their families, and local education agencies (LEAs). The Diagnostic Center Teams are committed to providing a quality service that makes a positive difference for students, their families, and educators.

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Diagnostic Center, Northern California (DCN) is a sector of the California Department of Education's State Special Schools and Services Division. We provide student assessments, virtual & in-person trainings, and on-site technical assistance projects at no cost to the school or district.

We would like to invite SELPA, district and school staff members to our virtual informational sessions. During this time we will discuss our various programs, answer any questions you may have and brainstorm how our center can be of assistance to your community.

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There is no cost for assessment services; however, requests for services must be generated by the local school district.

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About Teaching California. In 2017, the California Historical Society was awarded funding from the State of California to develop an online collection of primary source sets, aligned to the 2016 History-Social Science Framework, known as Teaching California. The California History-Social Science Project is a subcontractor and partner in this project, tasked with the content development of these sets for grades K-12.

About the Source Sets. Each set we developed contains a collection of 6-10 primary sources, excerpted for the appropriate grade level. Each of these sources is paired with secondary context, and the full collection includes a short teacher background, and at least one literacy strategy, aligned to California's ELD and Common Core Standards.

How to Access the Source Sets. The Historical Society has 30 source sets available on their Teaching California beta site, which offers educators the ability to download high-resolution versions of individual primary sources. Those sets, organized collectively in PDFs, are also available for download below, as well as 49 more.

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The Diagnostic Center, Southern California provides high-quality, individualized services to special education students, their families, and school districts.

Services are provided by expert, transdisciplinary teams of diagnostic professionals that may include educational specialists, speech-language specialists, school psychologists, clinical psychologists, motor specialists, and pediatricians who address the unique educational needs of Southern California's most difficult-to-serve students enrolled in special education programs.

The Diagnostic Center, Southern California is one of three regional assessment centers operated by the State Special Schools and Services Division of the California Department of Education. The Centers provide assessment, training, and technical assistance to all Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) in California. Each of the three Centers serves a specific geographic region in the state:

Our services include:

Comprehensive, state-of-the-art assessment and educational planning services to assist local school districts in determining the needs of their most complex students;

On-site technical assistance and consultation in program and instructional design based on the unique needs of each student;

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There is no cost for assessment services; however, requests for services must be generated by the local school district.

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CAPTAIN Vision Statement

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Presented by California Department of Education, Diagnostic Center, Central California
Based on science of reading research, this course is designed to introduce teachers and other interested professionals to fundamental knowledge and skills needed for effective reading instruction and assessment practices. Knowledge and skills taught in this course are aligned with California Common Core Standards and California Dyslexia Guidelines. This course was created for professionals working in an educational setting and seeking increased understanding and skill in effective reading instruction.

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Flexible: delivers strong benchmarking and progress monitoring yet robust enough to add a wide array of additional screeners and instructional supports

Teacher-friendly: easy to administer and score by a wide range of education personnel

Tested: content accurately measures reading and math skills with proven reliability and validity

Features

Take an at-a-glance view of all that aimswebPlus offers, then read more details below!

Universal benchmarking

Our partnership with  Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen™ offers an evidence-based, teacher-friendly observational rating scale for grades K-3. It is intended for mass screenings to sort students quickly - those at risk and those not at risk for dyslexia. The data can be used to set direction for intervention and instructional planning for all students, and a ready-to-use handout gives parents and caregivers ideas for supporting at-risk students outside school.

Key Principles:

Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)

Writing Assessment and Intervention

Social-Emotional Learning

Integrated Technology: Administration, Scoring, and Reporting

aimswebPlus provides comprehensive reporting for each screening and monitoring component. Each report highlights both performance and progress, enabling educators to make informed decisions about students and instruction. Reports include data for students, classrooms, grades, schools, and districts, as well as student norms at the national, state, and district level. Student reports can be generated in either HTML or PDF format and can be filtered to display the precise data needed. The level of information available in each report is based on the user's role and access level. Parent-friendly screening and progress monitoring results are also available.

Key Principles:

Accurately identify at-risk students and learning gaps in key skill areas.

Monitor and report individual and group growth, and group students based on instructional need.

Support dual-discrepancy and special ed evaluations.

Identify students at risk for not meeting end-of-year grade level targets.

Quickly evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for individuals and groups.

Resources

Whether you use an RTI/MTSS model within general education, need a system to track the growth of students with IEPs in special education, or both, aimswebPlus has you covered. Learn more through the resources available below.

FAQs

How does the renewal process work?

Within 60 days of your subscription's end, you will be notified that you should update your subscription for the next year. You can leave your subscription the same, edit the number of students, or cancel your subscription. On the subscription's renewal date (one year from purchase), you will be invoiced.

Is a calculator needed for aimswebPlus Math Concepts and Applications?

Students will never need to bring a calculator, nor will teachers ever need to provide one.

Starting in Fall 2022, students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade will see some questions where a digital calculator will be provided in the testing application (TestNav). The calculator will not be provided for all questions; the calculator will only be provided for questions aimed at seeing if the student understands an advanced mathematical concept. There are many questions designed to see if students, especially in lower grades, can calculate a solution accurately with only a pencil and scratch paper. For more advanced concepts like permutations, probability, and factorials we want the question to measure, " Does the student understand how to set up the equation?" Or " Do they understand the logic of a word problem? " It's for these kinds of questions that we enable the calculator, so the student is more likely to get the question right or wrong based on their mathematical understanding, and not because of an accidental arithmetic error.

CAT stands for Computer-Adaptive Test.

The Adaptive part means that it is a test that adapts to student responses. The list of questions on the test is not set when the test starts. Instead, there is a large bank of items of varying difficulty. Using a starting point on the item difficulty scale, the test starts with an item at that level. For aimswebPlus tests we start at a relatively easy level. When the student answers the question correctly or incorrectly, the CAT will choose the next item from the bank using that information.

To learn more about the CAT, please read the CAT FAQ

Partners

aimswebPlus loves our partners!

Meet students' needs every step of the way! We are excited to collaborate with many types of partners to enable data-driven decisions and empower teachers with good data at the right place and time.

Student Information Systems (Rostering as a Service) - Connections to student information systems for rostering.

Classlink

Clever

EdFi

Infinite Campus

OneRoster/IMS Global

PowerSchool

Skyward

RicOne

MIDataHub

Single Sign On - Connections to student information systems for single sign on/user login.

aimswebPlus: Google, Clever, Microsoft Azure, LTI (ClassLink)

TestNav: Google, Clever, ClassLink, SAML/LTI

Data Warehouses - Connections to data warehouses where assessment data can be sent into a customer's larger data pool.

Ed-FI ODS (Operational Data Store)

MiDataHub (Michigan Data Warehouse)

ECATS - (NC Data Warehouse)

Intervention Connections

Branching Minds - Branching Minds partners with schools to help educators streamline differentiation and personalize learning through an MTSS/RTI system solution that simplifies best practices.

Classworks - Online tiered-intervention program helps you pinpoint learning gaps and deliver math, reading, and language arts instruction at the right level to gain real-time insight into student progress.

Panorama Education - Solutions that scale consistent student supports with MTSS, PBIS, or RTI frameworks.

SPELL-Links | Learning By Design - Your speech-to-print structured literacy solution that combines direct multi-component instruction with systematic structured practice and facilitates implicit learning to build independent readers and writers across all tiers.

Other/Reporting/Data integration

Metametrics - Lexile and Quantile Scores

Educlimber Performance Matters

LearnersEdge

LandingZone

Intervention Compass

Illuminate

Eduphoria

EdInsights

EdHub

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Note: The information included on this web page is based on information provided by the publisher, is subject to change, and should be confirmed by potential purchasers.
General Information

Screening Instrument Title:

mCLASS with Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Eighth Edition and mCLASS Lectura

Organization:

Amplify Education, Inc.

Web page:
Amplify web page
Contact Information:

Recommended grade(s):

Recommended for use with the following student populations:

General education students

Students with disabilities

English learners

Bi/multilingual learners (English-Spanish)

Languages Available:

Skills Measured (English):

Refer to the Key below the tables.

Required

Additional/Optional

Key: Y = Approved, NA = Not available, K = Kindergarten, G1 = Grade One, G2 = Grade Two
Except for Other, the Skills Measured shown in the tables below are from California Education Code ( EC) Section 53008 (g)(1)(B).

Skills Measured (Spanish):

Required

Additional/Optional

Key: Y = Approved, NA = Not available, K = Kindergarten, G1 = Grade One, G2 = Grade Two
Except for Other, the Skills Measured shown in the table are from California EC Section 53008 (g)(1)(B).

Information about establishing student language proficiency to administer screener:

mCLASS assessments are designed to be used with all students learning to read in English and/or Spanish. However, mCLASS may not be suitable for students with limited verbal skills, fluency-based speech disorders, oral apraxia, or those for whom reading in English/Spanish is not a goal.

Supports for students who are not yet proficient with English:

mCLASS assessments account for linguistic diversity and instructional history, and include accommodations, practice items, scripted corrections, discontinue rules, and gating rules to ensure fair and accurate assessment. Students are not penalized for varied pronunciations due to consistent dialect, accent, or articulation differences.

Accommodations for students with disabilities:

Amplify integrates accessibility into its product development. mCLASS assessments support a variety of accommodations such as quiet settings, breaks, assistive technologies, enlarged materials, and tracking aids. Amplify collaborates with external experts to align its products with WCAG guidelines and has conducted audits to enhance digital accessibility, including features like keyboard operability and closed captions for students.

Administration

Mode:

Digital and paper-based

Grouping:

One-on-one administration. Small-group administration for some tasks.

Required technology:

Computer or tablet and internet connection.
Hardware and software requirements
Administration time in minutes:

Kindergarten:

DIBELS measures: up to four minutes per student for one-on-one

Lectura measures: up to eight minutes per student for one-on-one

Additional screening measures: up to 15 minutes per group

Grade one:

DIBELS measures: up to five minutes per student for one-on-one

Lectura measures: up to eight minutes per student for one-on-one

¿Cuál palabra? measures: four minutes per class

Additional screening measures: up to 15 minutes per group

Grade two:

DIBELS measures: up to three minutes per student for one-on-one

Maze measures: four minutes per class

Lectura measures: up to three minutes per student for one-on-one

¿Cuál palabra? measures: four minutes per class

Additional screening measures: up to 15 minutes per group

Time required for screener administrator training:

Six hours

Type of training available for screener administrators:

Training is available via several options, including scaffolded and phased professional learning or tailored professional learning. Training delivery methods include onsite, remote, online, and on-demand.

Scoring

Scores are calculated:

Automatically (computer-scored)

Scoring time in minutes:

No additional scoring time is needed.

Cost Information

Initial cost for implementing program:

mCLASS with DIBELS Eighth Edition Annual Student License: one-year price = $9

mCLASS Lectura Add-On Annual Student License: one-year price = $5

With the purchase of Amplify's implementation professional development package for $8,900, a school site (up to 30 participants) will receive mCLASS licenses at no additional cost for the first year of implementation.

Basic pricing plan and structure:

mCLASS licenses are provided per student user and include three benchmark screenings.

mCLASS with DIBELS Eighth Edition Annual Student License: one-year price = $9

mCLASS Lectura Add-On Annual Student License: one-year price = $5

Bulk pricing plan:

mCLASS with DIBELS Eighth Edition Annual Student License: multi-year price = $7

mCLASS Lectura Add-On Annual Student License: multi-year price = $5

Replacement cost per unit for subsequent use:

Licenses per student user can be purchased annually or multi-year.

Cost required for training:

The price for the introductory mCLASS professional development package (Launch, Strengthen, Coach) is $8,900 (for up to 30 participants). Pricing for any additional a la carte professional development is available.

Communication and Resources

Types of resources available for educators, screener administrators, and families:

Teachers, school and district leaders, and students all access mCLASS through the same portal using individual login credentials. The reporting suite allows users to see only those students and reports that are relevant to them. The Home Connect feature includes activities for reinforcement at home and provides letters to caregivers about their child's reading development in English and Spanish.

User interfaces and data management system:

Amplify products are delivered as web-based SaaS (Software as a Service). More information is available on the Amplify Customer Requirements web page .

Last Reviewed: Thursday, January 9, 2025

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