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This site organizes resources related to the FastBridge assessments used for universal screening and progress monitoring at Des Moines Public Schools.
​Together, these assessments help us identify who has needs and evaluate whether instructional supports provided are meeting those needs.
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Test Coordinator Canvas Course

Click the icon below to access the asynchronous FastBridge Test Coordinator training course on Canvas.

2022-2023 Des Moines Public Schools Universal Screening Assessments

Bold text indicates changes from the 2021-2022 school year. ​Asterisks indicate the default screener used by the Iowa Department of Education to calculate literacy status and Healthy Indicators in Panorama Student Success.
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earlyReading
  • is an evidence-based assessment used to screen and monitor student progress. Administered in grades K-1, for screening and for frequent progress monitoring. Each assessment is designed to be highly efficient and inform instruction.
CBMreading 
  • is a simple, efficient, evidence-based assessment used for universal screening and progress monitoring. A teacher listens and evaluates a student’s performance, including accuracy, error types, and qualitative features, while they read aloud from a grade-level passages for one minute. 

aReading

  • aReading is a simple and efficient procedure for screening students' broad reading abilities. aReading is a computer-adaptive test and students respond to between 30 and 60 questions on each testing occasion. Based on a student's response patterns, the assessment will identify items of increasing or decreasing difficulty until it is able to estimate a student's skill level. 

AUTOreading

  • AUTOreading is a suite subtests that measure the accuracy and rate of phonological (sound), orthographic (spelling), and semantic (meaning) skills. When used for screening, specific sets of the subtests are used together, with the screening subtests varying by grade level.
earlyMath
  • is an evidence-based assessment used to screen and monitor student progress. Administered in grades K-1, for screening and for frequent progress monitoring. Each assessment is designed to be highly efficient and inform instruction.
CBMmath Automaticity
  • is a simple, efficient, evidence-based assessment used for universal screening and progress monitoring. The 90 second assessment evaluates the degree to which a student’s basic math facts and operations are accurate and automatic (fluent).

aMath

  • aMath is a simple and efficient procedure for screening students' broad math abilities. aMath is a computer-adaptive test and students respond to between 30 and 60 questions on each testing occasion. Based on a student's response patterns, the assessment will identify items of increasing or decreasing difficulty until it is able to estimate a student's skill level. 

Administration Dates

Fall 
All Schools: September 12 - September 23
Winter
Middle: January 4 - February 17*
Elementary: January 23 - February 17*

*Winter window extended in response to cybersecurity incident 
Spring
All Schools: May 8 - May 19* 

*Middle Schools- Reading only in Spring

Quick Links to Other FastBridge Resources

All materials linked below are also available in the DMPS Assessments Team > FastBridge Channel or in the Canvas Course described above.
DMPS Allowed Accommodations for ELLs
Assessment Overviews
Literacy Screening Benchmark Cutpoints & Recommended PM Measures
ELI Parent Communications (Translated)
Printable Student Test Materials
Test Coordinator Resources
Math Screening Benchmark Cutpoints & Recommended PM Measures
Progress Monitoring 
For support using FastBridge at Des Moines Public Schools, please email kayleigh.koester@dmschools.org.