Assessment

Alanna - fellow literacy geek - where are you?
I am currently learning about research-based assessments. Have you ever heard of CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment) and CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement)? It's a very interesting method of graphing student progress based on the norms of their specific classroom.
I was curious to know what type of assessment techniques do you have set in place at your job? What other types of assessments have you heard of people using? What do you think is most effective?

Here is a link about CBM if you're interested http://cbmnow.com/documents/cbaManualhand.pdf