Early Literacy Screener
The statewide reading readiness screener, Pearson aimswebPlus, will be adminstered two to three times per year:
K-3 students: Assessed three times per year (fall, winter, spring).
4K students: Assessed twice per year.
Parents and caregivers will receive assessment results within 15 days via NextPath.
Updated aimswebPLUS Norms
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the national norms for the aimswebPLUS Early Literacy and Reading measures have been updated. This revision ensures that our assessments accurately represent current student performance nationwide.
What are norms? Norms are statistical benchmarks that help us understand how a student's performance compares to their peers nationwide. Think of it like comparing a student's height to the national average for their age—the national average for height changes over time, and so do the benchmarks for student academic performance.
How will this affect your child's scores? The new norms will be used to calculate your child's national percentile rankings, student growth percentiles (SGP), and risk tier scores. This means that a student's score in the upcoming school year may result in a different percentile ranking than the same score would have in a previous year. The content of the tests themselves has not changed, but the reference points for comparison have.
A change in your child’s percentile does not mean their skills have gone up or down. It simply means the group of students your child is being compared to has changed. Since students across the country are now scoring a little lower on average, the same test score may show a higher percentile. In other words, your child didn’t necessarily do better — it just looks higher because of how the national comparison group has shifted. The best way to understand your child’s growth is by looking at how their actual scores change over time, not just the percentile.
By law, students who score below the 25th percentile are required to have a Personal Reading Plan (PRP) detailing the instructional services and progress monitoring they will receive to support their reading growth. Please understand that even if your child is now above the 25th percentile and had a PRP last school year, we will still evaluate their results and identify needed services to support their growth to meet grade level standards.
For more detailed information related to aimswebPLUS renorming progress, please review this document from aimswebPLUS.
Diagnostic Assessments
Students scoring below the 25th percentile on the universal screener will receive a diagnostic assessment.
The North Fond du Lac School District has selected the i-Ready Assessment as the diagnostic tool. Diagnostic assessments will be completed within 10 days of the early literacy screener, with results sent home afterward.