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‘TestWiz’ Helps Educators Easily Process ‘Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Next’ (DIBELS® Next) Data

Teachers and administrators can key enter, score, and report on popular and recently upgraded literacy assessment

Harvard, MA, November 12, 2010 – dataMetrics, a Massachusetts-based company specializing in test processing and reporting software for K–12 educational institutions, has added the DIBELS® Next assessment to the portfolio of assessments that can be processed by the TestWiz system. Created by Dynamic Measurement Group, DIBELS Next is a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills for K-6 students.

TestWiz allows educators to take student results from DIBELS Next and easily input them into the online system for diagnosis. After key-entering the scores, TestWiz allows educators to analyze the student data, create multiple reports, and plan effective student interventions, if necessary. While most assessments only show results for a given test, TestWiz also allows schools and districts to view DIBELS Next data alongside other assessments so that educators can create a thorough analysis of student performance.

“With assessments constantly evolving, it is imperative that educators are equipped with the resources to accurately and effectively analyze student results so they can properly individualize instruction to help boost academic achievement,” said Naomi Menikoff, President of dataMetrics Software, Inc. “The flexibility and adaptive nature of TestWiz allows the system to tailor to multiple assessments, such as DIBELS Next, providing a comprehensive data analysis solution for local formative assessments, state assessments, and standardized tests.”

DIBELS Next, which is an upgrade to DIBELS, includes:
• All new forms and passages
• Improved, clearer directions for assessor and students
• New easier-to-administer measure of early phonemic awareness
• New measure used as an indicator of comprehension for grades 3-6
• Larger format for scoring booklets
• Retell integrated into the Oral Reading Fluency measure
• Benchmark goals and cut points for risk

For more information on DIBELS Next, visit https://www.dibels.org/bros/DIBELSNextAnnouncement.pdf. For more information on TestWiz, visit www.testwiz.com.

About dataMetrics Software, Inc.
dataMetrics Software, Inc. is a privately-held Massachusetts company specializing in test processing and reporting software for educational institutions. Since its incorporation in 1994 with its launch of TestWiz, dataMetrics Software, Inc. has helped hundreds of districts make data-driven decisions in an effort to improve instruction and learning. TestWiz helps districts understand assessments from the ground up — from test processing, to scoring, to reporting and analyzing. For more information, visit dataMetrics Software at www.testwiz.com.
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