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How it works: Quickly identify the needs of each student and inform next steps with instant analysis, reports, and instructional planning tools included in the only licensed mobile version of the research-based Acadience Reading assessment.

About the Acadience Reading assessment

• Use short, 1-minute fluency measures for foundational reading skills.
• Replace manual calculations with instant results and recommended activities.
• Compare student progress with predictive, research-based benchmark goals.
• Track progress and target instruction to individual student needs.
• Support decision-making at every level using aggregate reports.
• Translate class- and student-level reports into individualized instruction using the Now What? Tools.
• Get a more complete view of early literacy skills with the new mCLASS:Early Literacy Measures (ELM).

• The Utah Enrollment for mCLASS document is the best resource regarding how the enrollment process works with your student information system (SIS) to UTREx to mCLASS. Files load into mCLASS on your first day of school.  In order to avoid duplicate enrollment issues, do not manually add classes or students in mCLASS; only staff. 
• Be sure your student information system is current with 2022-23SY records and is turned on to speak to UTREx daily in order for your files to load in mCLASS.  
• Districts are responsible for staff enrollment in mCLASS.  Add new staff, and delete staff who no longer need access to mCLASS or are no longer employed at your district.   
• The Device Setup Guide will help you get started assessing.

Enrolling with multiple Amplify programs?

For additional support in enrolling when using multiple Amplify programs, please contact Carolyn Mulloy via email at cmulloy@amplify.com.

Progress monitoring is the most powerful tool we offer with regards to student achievement.

“Scores for Daze increase more slowly than they do for other Acadience Reading measures, so more frequent monitoring may not be as informative. For students who need to be monitored on Daze, we recommend monitoring once per month.” — Progress Monitoring with Acadience Reading©

Acadience Learning. Oct. 2012

The Acadience Reading authors recommend progress monitoring students in the Well Below Benchmark category once every 7-10 days (and once every 10-12 days for students in the Below Benchmark category).

Progress monitoring is the practice of testing students briefly but frequently on the skill areas in which they are receiving instruction, to ensure that they are making adequate progress. When students are identified as at risk for reading difficulties, they can receive progress monitoring testing more frequently to ensure that the instruction they are receiving is helping them make progress. (Acadience Learning/October 2012, Progress Monitoring Guide)

The purposes of progress monitoring are:

• to provide ongoing feedback about the effectiveness of instruction,
• to determine students’ progress toward important and meaningful goals, and
• to make timely decisions about changes to instruction so that students will meet those goals.

• Select students for progress monitoring
• Select Acadience Reading materials for progress monitoring
• Set progress monitoring goals
• Determine the frequency of progress monitoring
• Conduct progress monitoring assessment
• Access data through class and student reports
• Evaluate progress and modify instruction.

The key to progress monitoring: Instruction should link to progress monitoring and progress monitoring should link to instruction. They should run parallel and merge as one to confirm student growth in reading.

Check your progress monitoring fidelity report in mCLASS to ensure you are on track with these students. For more information regarding progress monitoring guidelines, visit the official progress monitoring guidelines.