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Diagnostic Assessment Tools (DAT): Interim assessments to inform instructional practice and meet student needs in mathematics and reading

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Intervention Details

Subjects

English Language Arts, Math

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

Full school year

Grades

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Diagnostic Assessment Tools (DAT) is a set of two interim assessments aligned to Indiana state standards and grade-level expectations, intended to help teachers monitor student learning and adjust their instruction to student needs during the school year. DAT consists of Wireless Generation's mCLASS for students in grades K-2 and CTB/McGraw-Hill's Acuity for students in grades 3-8. The mCLASS software package includes diagnostic assessments in reading and math, while Acuity includes four diagnostic assessments and three predictive assessments. Both assessments are accompanied by progress monitoring tools, instructional tools, and online support systems that allow teachers to assess student performance on state standards and objectives and identify students performing at different achievement levels.

Statistical Finding Summary

No effect on general mathematics achievement

No effect on general reading achievement

Positive effect on mathematics achievement for grades 5 and 6

Positive effect on reading achievement for grades 3-5

No effect on mathematics achievement for grades 3 and 4

No effect on reading achievement for grade 6

Source

(2015). WWC Review of the Report "The Impact of Indiana's System of Interim Assessments on Mathematics and Reading Achievement." What Works Clearinghouse Single Study Review (ED560749). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED560749.pdf.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.