Early literacy assessment and intervention, grounded in the Science of Reading
mCLASS® is an all-in-one system for Science of Reading-based universal screening, dyslexia screening, progress monitoring, and instruction for Foundation to Year 8. Powered by DIBELS® 8th Edition, mCLASS helps you measure and strengthen the foundational skills that all students need to become confident readers.
What is mCLASS?
mCLASS, the only digital provider of DIBELS 8th edition assessments, provides universal screening, dyslexia screening and progress monitoring to assess your students on their reading trajectory and what skills they need to develop.
You’ll observe students as they form sounds or read words and text. Then, mCLASS instantly scores and analyses student response patterns to provide you with diagnostic data and instructional focus for each student and group.
With mCLASS, you’ll have everything you need to support every type of learner in your classroom, including advanced learners, multilingual learners, and students with signs of dyslexia.
Our approach
mCLASS provides rich data to help you match Science of Reading-based instruction with your students’ precise needs. You’ll be able to monitor the effectiveness of instruction and make timely decisions when students, classrooms or Tiered Intervention groups need extra support.
Grounded in the Science of Reading
From phonics to fluency and comprehension, mCLASS assesses the skills that are most critical for students to become successful readers. Once students are assessed, you’ll have the data you need to drive instructional decisions at the classroom, school, and regional level.
- Data you can trust, with teacher-administered assessments
- Skill-level data aligned with the Science of Reading
- Data-driven instructional recommendations to support tiered intervention, learning support, and extension
Precise, trustworthy data through direct observation
Our approach to assessment is focused on providing you with immediate insights you can trust. Through direct observation of students and detailed school reports, including assessment transcripts and diagnostic error patterns, you’ll have total transparency into each student’s performance.
Instant analysis and next steps
With mCLASS, you can interpret and act on data in real time with instant instructional guidance based on benchmark and progress-monitoring results. In one click, teachers can access differentiated skill-based groups and targeted resources to develop students’ foundational literacy skills.
What’s included
The mCLASS program includes quick assessments of critical reading skills, real-time reporting, and data-driven instructional recommendations.
Efficient one-minute measures
DIBELS 8th Edition’s predictive one-minute assessments of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension are proven to identify risk as early as possible.
- Phonological awareness
- Phonic knowledge and word recognition
- Reading fluency
- Reading accuracy
- Comprehension
Early detection of dyslexia indicators
With mCLASS, you can efficiently screen students and assess the full range of skills linked to dyslexia risk factors at the same time. mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition is validated as a comprehensive dyslexia screener, with additional Vocabulary, Spelling, Rapid Automatised Naming (RAN), and Language Comprehension measures available at no additional cost.
Progress monitoring and goal setting
To help you target the right skills and areas of instruction, mCLASS recommends progress-monitoring measures and automatically sets meaningful, attainable goals for each student. Our Zones of Growth goal setting framework examines your student’s DIBELS scores to predict the rate of growth they need to reach end-of-year goals.
- Automatic progress monitoring recommendations
- Customisable goals
- Semester and full-year growth reports
Differentiated instruction for all students
Our library of more than 500 evidence-based activities makes it easy to plan lessons that reinforce your core instruction. The embedded professional learning supports consider the varied language backgrounds of all students and provide cross-linguistic transfer and language variety guidance to inform phonological awareness instruction.
Educator and caregiver reports
Easy-to-use reports, ranging from classroom-level to school- and regional-wide, help you evaluate each student’s reading skills over time and pinpoint exactly when a change in instruction is needed.
To reinforce learning at home, the Home Connect feature provides letters to caregivers about their child’s reading development, and includes activities for reinforcement at home or on the go.
Ready to continue your learning journey?
Help build teacher confidence and improve effectiveness of intervention and learning support with mCLASS professional learning. Launch sessions help your team get up and running, while Strengthen sessions help teachers go beyond the basics.
