DIBELS NEXT SAMPLE STUDENT LEARNING TARGETS

1) By the end of the school year, at least ____% ( # ) of my students that scored below benchmark [according to fall screening results] on DIBELS Next will score at or above benchmark.

2) By the end of the school year, at least ____% ( # ) of my students that scored below benchmark [according to fall screening results] on DIBELS Next will score one or more instructional levels higher (intensive to strategic/core or strategic to core).

3) By the end of the school year, __% (#) of the students in my class will demonstrate a year’s growth by scoring benchmark on DIBELS Next which is an increase from __% (#) of my students that scored benchmark at the beginning of the year.

Samples:

Whole group/class:

By the end of the school year, 95% (21/22) of the students in my class will demonstrate at least year’s growth by scoring benchmark on DIBELS Next which is an increase from 84% (19/22) of my students that scored benchmark at the beginning of the year.

Subgroup:

By the end of the school year, at least 50% (8/16) of my students that scored below benchmark [according to fall screening results] on DIBELS Next will score at or above benchmark.

By the end of the school year, at least 50% (14/28) of my students that scored below benchmark [according to fall screening results] on DIBELS Next will score one or more instructional levels higher (intensive to strategic/core or strategic to core).

Rationale for SLT: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Next measures are indicators of essential early literacy skills that a child must master to become a good reader. Therefore, DIBELS Next data can be used to identify students that are at low risk to high risk for reading problems and to measure student literacy growth as the expected performance has progressively increased rigor from the beginning to the end of the school year.