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aimswebPlus & aimswebPlus Canadian Edition
aimswebPlus is a tool for teachers and educational teams in MTSS/RTI and special education contexts. aimswebPlus offers nationally-normed, skills-based benchmark assessments and progress monitoring integrated into one application across reading and math domains with additional add-on measures across dyslexia and behavior/social-emotional skills. aimswebPlus informs daily instruction and provides growth results to caregivers and district/state audiences in reading and math achievement using curriculum-based assessment and standards-aligned content for students in PreK through Grade 12. Additionally, aimswebPlus links to instructional resources to support growth in reading, writing, and math skills. aimswebPlus uncovers learning gaps quickly, identifies at-risk students, and assesses growth at the individual and group levels.Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.
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aimswebPlus Canadian edition: Measures for grades K-2 (with Canadian content & spelling)
aimswebPlus: Grades PreK–12. - Completion time:
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Progress Monitoring measures are brief and vary from 1 – 7 minutes.
Benchmarking varies depending on grade level and measures selected.
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Primarily online administration and scoring with some paper-and-pencil administrations.
- Scoring options:
- Web-based scoring with some manual scoring exceptions
- Report options:
- Real-time reporting at the district, school, grade, class and student levels
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
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Measure what matters
aimswebPlus (and aimswebPlus Canadian Edition) provide the framework, data, and guidance that Canadian educators—administrators, teachers, and specialists— need to efficiently allocate and evaluate core instruction and interventions, helping them improve outcomes for all students based on accurate, continuous, and direct student assessment. Measure the effectiveness of your tutoring and intervention initiatives with aimswebPlus.
aimswebPlus Canadian Edition for literacy and reading has all the functionality of aimswebPlus, as well as:
- Relevant Canadian content for grades K-2
- Canadian spelling for grades K-2
- Software and data resides on servers in Canada
aimswebPlus can be used for K-8 (and up to grade 12 using grade 8 norms) for both reading and math.
Early intervention is the key to success, both in and out of the classroom. With aimswebPlus, you can measure what matters — when it matters.
aimswebPlus can help you:
- Meet accountability requirements
- Uncover learning gaps faster and more accurately
- Screen and monitor students in one seamless system
- Track student progress for more effective instruction and interventions
- Collect literacy data on your student population
Benefits
What really matters to you? Rank these for you and your team and let us help you deliver results:
- Brief: monitoring measures take 1 to 4 minutes to complete, more comprehensive screening batteries can be completed in approximately 30 minutes
- Predictive: provides accurate predictions of reading (and math) achievement by the end of the school year
- Sensitive to improvement: Rate of improvement (ROI) has long been a component of classroom reporting — in both individual student reports and in local and national norm tables. aimswebPlus includes student ROI growth percentiles and summaries that allow schools to compare progress against similar students in a national sample. Ideal for showing growth as frequently as weekly!
- Flexible: delivers strong benchmarking and progress monitoring yet robust enough to add a wide array of additional screeners and instructional supports
- Teacher-friendly: We value our teachers’ dedication to students. Large Canadian class sizes often mean scarce resources and little time to monitor student achievement. To assist with the demands of accommodations in learning, aimswebPlus is teacher-driven for flexibility in assessment practices, and can be used to quickly screen and monitor student progress at any point in the assessment cycle. The regular use of this platform encourages quick and easy administration, accurate results and personalized learning.
- Tested, proven technology: designed by educational experts, aimswebPlus underwent a stringent development and standardization process. The system uses proven, standards-based assessments to screen and monitor student performance. These assessments are built upon brief, valid, and reliable skill measures.
- Intuitive: easy to administer and score by a wide range of educational personnel
- Accurate: measures reading and language arts skills with precision
Features
At the foundation of aimswebPlus are general outcome measures, a form of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) used for universal screening and progress monitoring.
- Designed specifically to universally screen, progress monitor, and report data
- Browser-based scoring on any device
- Ideal for RTI and tiered instruction
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Universal screening—benchmarking for student reading & literacy abilities—makes it possible to accurately measure student and classroom performance and identify students at risk for literacy gaps or reading difficulties—including dyslexia—all within a single class period. For most students, a battery of multiple brief measures is used for universal screening. These standards-based measures are designed to evaluate essential knowledge and skills as efficiently as possible. The multi-measure battery provides student and classroom profiles of strengths and weaknesses to tailor instruction to the needs of all students.
Key Principles:
- Manage the entire fall, winter, and spring assessment cycle
- Identify students at risk for dyslexia
- Compare reading (and math) performance to grade level expectations
- Build student and classroom profiles of strengths and weaknesses to tailor instruction and instructional groupings
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Our partnership with Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen™ offers an evidence-based, teacher-friendly observational rating scale for grades K–3. It is intended for mass screenings to sort students quickly — those at risk and those not at risk for dyslexia. The data can be used to set direction for intervention and instructional planning for all students, and a ready-to-use handout gives parents and caregivers ideas for supporting at-risk students outside school. To get a closer look, see our dyslexia resources for educators.
Key Principles:
- Documentation of educator ratings and concerns that show evidence of dyslexia risk
- Reliable and valid, norm-based student performance ratings that support educator observations
- Multiple measures that support best practice in screening and assessment
- Universally screen, identify risk, progress monitor, and report results in one seamless system
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RAN measures are increasingly common in state-level requirements for dyslexia screening programs. RAN is a highly sensitive construct to reading outcomes. While two aimswebPlus measures, Letter Naming Fleuncy (LNF) and Number Naming Fluency (NNF), may also tap into RAN skills, they can be confounded by knowledge of letters and numbers. The RAN measures include Objects as well as Colors & Shapes for more general RAN screening.
Key Principles:
- RAN has been a common measurement construct for decades.
- RAN measures underlying cognitive skill, rather than achievement.
- Comparing LNF/NNF performance to non-academic tasks allows a deeper understanding of RAN in a student.
- Use as a universal or targeted additional measure for more insight into student capabilities.
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From a young age, students begin learning the fundamentals of writing, starting with the basics of correct sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation. Being a GOOD writer, however, entails more than the mastery of basic writing skills. It requires the writer to organize thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and facts in a way that will both engage the reader and perhaps even influence their own way of thinking on the topic. aimswebPlus hosts WriteToLearn for ongoing writing assessment and intervention for all students or a subset of students.
Key Principles:
- 75% of 8th and 12th grade students are not proficient in writing (NAEP).
- WriteToLearn builds writing skills and reading comprehension in grades 4–12.
- Automated scoring and feedback lighten a teacher’s load and increase the number of graded writing opportunities.
- Embedded support tools (e.g., translated instructions, text-to-speech) benefit struggling readers, writers, and English learners.
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Because aimswebPlus measures are designed with sensitivity to detect change, the scores reflect progress that can occur over relatively short intervals. Progress monitoring enables more frequent assessment to track individualized rate of improvement and documents each student’s response to instructional changes. Curriculum-based measures (CBMs) that are used for progress monitoring are quick to administer, simple to score, and are regularly delivered to provide continuous student progress data.
Key Principles:
- Brief, standardized, and reliable
- Sensitive to growth that occurs over relatively short intervals
- Available in multiple equivalent forms to reduce practice effects on retesting
- Easy to administer and score, allowing it to be used accurately by a wide range of education professionals
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The BASC™-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) offers a comprehensive, digital system within a benchmark assessment like aimswebPlus that requires just 2 to 4 minutes per student and 60 to 90 minutes for an entire class. The results are available immediately within the aimswebPlus platform.
Key Principles:
- Documentation of educator ratings and observations that evaluate students’ behavior and emotional skills
- Reliable and valid, norms-based student performance ratings that support educator observations
- Universally screen, monitor progress, and report results in one seamless system
- Quick administration with evidence-based results
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Everyone wins when students’ negative behavior decreases and their learning opportunities and academic achievement increase. However, a deficit in any of the five key social-emotional skills ― self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision making ― can lead to behavior and emotional difficulties, as well as less involvement in academics. The comprehensive SSIS-SEL behavior rating forms assess student strengths and improvement areas across five SEL and three academic competencies.
Key Principles:
- Fully CASEL-aligned
- Teacher, Parent, and Student Forms
- Integrated with the SSIS-SEL Edition Classwide Intervention Program
- Useful as a universal or targeted additional measure for more insight into student capabilities
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aimswebPlus provides comprehensive reporting for each screening and monitoring component. Each report highlights both performance and progress, enabling educators to make informed decisions about students and instruction. Reports include data for students, classrooms, grades, schools, and districts, as well as student norms at the national, state, and district level. Student reports can be generated in either HTML or PDF format and can be filtered to display the precise data needed. The level of information available in each report is based on the user’s role and access level. Parent-friendly screening and progress monitoring results are also available.
Key Principles:
- Accurately identify at-risk students and learning gaps in key skill areas.
- Monitor and report individual and group growth, and group students based on instructional need.
- Support dual-discrepancy and special ed evaluations.
- Identify students at risk for not meeting end-of-year grade level targets.
- Quickly evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for individuals and groups.
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aimswebPlus helps to evaluate a wide range of needs for students such as reading letters, alphabetic principle, phonics, listening comprehension, vocabulary, phonics skills, oral reading, and spelling. These tasks are categorized into benchmarking and progress monitoring measures within literacy, including:
Whether you use an RTI/MTSS model within general education, need a system to track the growth of students with IEPs in special education, or both, aimswebPlus has you covered. Learn more through the resources available below.
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The reports suggests using a reliable, valid screener for grades K-2, twice a year. It suggests that the measures be grade specific and that they should observe the following criteria:
- Kindergarten: letter knowledge and phonemic awareness
- Grade 1 (beginning): phonemic awareness, decoding, word identification and text reading
- Grade 1 (second semester): decoding, word identification
- and text reading, and should include speed as well as accuracy as an outcome
- Grade 2: timed word reading and passage reading
Based on this information, aimswebplus is a tool that may be considered.
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aimswebPlus can be used for K-8 (and up to grade 12 using grade 8 norms) for both reading and math. aimswebPlus Canadian Edition for literacy and reading has all the functionality of aimswebPlus, as well as:
- Relevant Canadian content for grades K-2
- Canadian spelling for grades K-2
- Software and data resides on servers in Canada
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aimswebPlus is exclusively a digital platform. Should you wish to use paper/pencil administration, however, stimulus books for select measures —housed within the digital platform—are downloadable and may be printed.
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Interventions are not embedded in the aimswebPlus platform. aimswebPlus can be layered into existing interventions, strategies and processes that districts/schools already have in place, however, and can monitor their effectiveness. Because aimswebPlus’ measures are designed with sensitivity to detect change, the scores reflect progress that can occur over relatively short intervals. The progress monitoring functionality in aimswebPlus allows you to determine if your interventions are effective, or if adjustments are required. Progress monitoring enables more frequent assessment to track individualized rate of improvement, and documents each student’s response to instructional changes. Curriculum-based measures that are used for progress monitoring are quick to administer, simple to score, and are regularly delivered to provide continuous student progress data.
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aimswebPlus is a US norm-referenced tool (similar to many widely-used assessments in Canada). With use of the aimswebPlus platform, users are able to create local norms over time—allowing for cultural and inclusive considerations.
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For large adoptions, Roster Imports are recommended to create the account structure (Districts, Schools, and Classes) by importing teachers and students, updating student demographics, and rostering students into classes to establish the records. For small adoptions, there is an option to manually add, edit, and delete Districts, Schools, Classes and Students, one by one, on individual screens. To maximize efficiency, it is our recommendaction to Roster Import even with smaller districts. Our technical team is available for support when needed.
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In accordance with PIPEDA, aimswebPlus Canadian Edition resides on Canadian servers located in Canada.
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aimswebPlus is a compilation of 20 years of research, reevaluation, and best practices. Our Technical and Development manuals are available on the platform; each measure is addressed in these resource manuals.
Designed by educational experts, aimswebPlus has undergone a stringent development and standardization process. The system uses proven, standards-based assessments to screen and monitor student performance with real-time data collection and on-demand reporting. Its secure, web-based system can be integrated with student information systems for ease of access. These assessments are built upon brief, valid, and reliable skill measures. -
The screening tools can be used up to grade 12 for intensive support and for on-grade level forms and norms through grade 8. Students can be assigned a progress monitoring schedule for measures on- or off-grade level.
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Yes. aimswebPlus is teacher-driven for flexibility in instructional and assessment practices, and can be used to quickly screen and monitor student progress at any point. The regular use of this platform encourages quick and easy administration and accurate results.
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aimswebPlus is available as an annual per-student subscription for reading and/or math. For information about pricing, please see ordering information on PearsonClinical.ca, or feel free to contact an Assessment Consultant for your region.
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Available as an optional add-on to aimswebPlus, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen puts the power of reliable and efficient dyslexia screenings directly into the hands of educators using the aimswebPlus platform.
Created by Dr. Sally Shaywitz—a global leader in dyslexia—the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen emphasizes phonological, linguistic, and academic performance based on teacher observations providing an evidence-based, user-friendly observational rating scale for grades K–2. It is intended for mass screenings to sort students—those at risk and those not at risk for dyslexia— quickly. The data can be used to set direction for intervention and instructional planning for all students.
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CAT stands for Computer-Adaptive Test.
The Adaptive part means that it is a test that adapts to student responses. The list of questions on the test is not set when the test starts. Instead, there is a large bank of items of varying difficulty. Using a starting point on the item difficulty scale, the test starts with an item at that level. For aimswebPlus tests we start at a relatively easy level. When the student answers the question correctly or incorrectly, the CAT will choose the next item from the bank using that information.
To learn more about the CAT, please read the CAT FAQ
aimswebPlus loves our partners!
Meet students’ needs every step of the way! We are excited to collaborate with many types of partners to enable data-driven decisions and empower teachers with good data at the right place and time.
Student Information Systems (Rostering as a Service) - Connections to student information systems for rostering.
- Classlink
- Clever
- EdFi
- Infinite Campus
- OneRoster/IMS Global
- PowerSchool
- Skyward
- RicOne
- MIDataHub
Single Sign On - Connections to student information systems for single sign on/user login.
- aimswebPlus: Google, Clever, Microsoft Azure, LTI (ClassLink)
- TestNav: Google, Clever, ClassLink, SAML/LTI
Data Warehouses – Connections to data warehouses where assessment data can be sent into a customer's larger data pool.
- Ed-FI ODS (Operational Data Store)
- MiDataHub (Michigan Data Warehouse)
- ECATS – (NC Data Warehouse)
Intervention Connections
- Branching Minds - Branching Minds partners with schools to help educators streamline differentiation and personalize learning through an MTSS/RTI system solution that simplifies best practices.
- Classworks - Online tiered-intervention program helps you pinpoint learning gaps and deliver math, reading, and language arts instruction at the right level to gain real-time insight into student progress.
- Otus - Otus gives educators the tools they need to support every student’s growth. With one solution for assessment, data, and insights, Otus helps educators track progress, close gaps, and personalize learning for each student.
- Panorama Education - Solutions that scale consistent student supports with MTSS, PBIS, or RTI frameworks.
- SPELL-Links | Learning By Design - Your speech-to-print structured literacy solution that combines direct multi-component instruction with systematic structured practice and facilitates implicit learning to build independent readers and writers across all tiers.
Other/Reporting/Data integration
- Metametrics – Lexile and Quantile Scores
- Educlimber Performance Matters
- LearnersEdge
- LandingZone
- Intervention Compass
- Illuminate
- Eduphoria
- EdInsights
- EdHub
Certified Partners
The following informational events are available for aimswebPlus.
