Social Studies Progress Monitoring and Intervention for Middle School Students

Abstract

This study examined the technical adequacy of vocabulary-matching curriculum-based measurement (CBM) to identify and monitor the progress of 148 middle school students in social studies. In addition, the effectiveness of a reading comprehension intervention, Collaborative Strategic Reading (Klingner, Vaughn, Dimino, Schumm, & Bryant, 2001), was examined across 8 weeks with 15 low-achieving middle school readers who were monitored with content-area reading passages. Results indicated vocabulary-matching CBMs are valid and reliable indicators of performance in social studies. Significant differences were found for the intervention group on performance on pre to post vocabulary-matching CBM scores. Difference-in-Differences regression models were used to examine differences between groups on pre–post measures. No significant differences were found between groups in weekly change in scores or trend in performance on vocabulary-matching CBM.