Progress Monitoring

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Formative evaluation and progress monitoring are an essential part of RtI. By regularly assessing students in specific academic and behavioral areas,  educators can determine the efficacy of the selected instructional strategy and make more effective decisions regarding planning for instruction and further intervention.

Progress monitoring helps schools establish more effective programs for children who have not benefited from previous programming.  It is also a useful formative assessment in the classroom, as it directly measures specific skills; it is sensitive to small increments of growth in a skill; and it produces graphable results in relation to specific learning goals.

Progress monitoring is an on-going, systematic approach to gathering academic and behavioral data. Using a variety of data collection methods, student performance can be examined frequently, over time, to evaluate response to intervention, thereby allowing data-based decision-making regarding instruction and learning outcomes.

NASDSE. (2005). Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation. Alexandria, VA.

NRCLD. (2006). Integrating RtI Within the SLD Determination Process.  National SEA Conference on SLD Determination, Kansas City, KS.

McCook, J. 2006. RtI Implementation Strategies and Solutions. (Virtual Seminar). 2006.

 

Data-Driven Decision Making (DDDM) & Data Teams (DT)

Data-driven decision making (DDDM) is the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and utilization of data to inform decisions.  In a school setting, this means school leaders provide an environment that enables the collection of information relating to school, district and state goals and standards.  At the building level, administrators and staff analyze and interpret the data to make decisions about instruction, assessment and curriculum planning.  All educators in a school using DDDM are trained to effectively use and analyze the data that they collect.

Data Teams (DT)

The data analysis team, or data team, is a potentially useful structure to support teachers’ use of regularly collected data. The data can be used to provide evidence of the functionality of the core curriculum and instructional process.  In addition, the data helps identify those students in need of further intervention at Tier 2 (see Multi-tiered Intervention / Continuum of Support).

See also…

Data Driven Decision-Making/ Data Teams Training  (DDDM/DT) at The Connecticut Accountability for Learning Initiative

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Resources on Progress Monitoring

AIMSWeb

Information on progress monitoring and assessment systems.
http://www.edformation.com

Center for Performance Assessment

An educational organization that helps individuals, school districts, and corporations achieve their educational objectives through assessment, accountability, and standards.
http://www.makingstandardswork.com/index.htm

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring

National technical assistance and dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically based student progress monitoring.
http://www.studentprogress.org/

SERC Library Holdings

Print Resources

Brown-Childsey, Rachel and Mark W. Steege. 2005.  Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies for Effective Practice.  Guilford Press, NY: 176 pp.

Hardcastle, Beth and Kelly Justice.  2006.  RtI and the Classroom Teacher: A Guide for Fostering Teacher Buy-in and Supporting the Intervention Process.  LRP Publications, West Palm Beach, FL:  69 pp.

Lane, Kathleen L.  2004.  School-based Interventions: The Tools You Need to Succeed.  Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA: 290 pp.

Shapiro, Edward S.  2004.  Academic Skills Problems:  Direct Assessment and Intervention.  The Guilford Press, NY: 370 pp. book, 148 pp. workbook.

Stoiber, Karen C.  2002.  Outcomes PME:  Planning, Monitoring, Evaluating.  PsychCorp, San Antonio, TX: manual, recording form.

 

Audiovisual Resources

McCook, John E. and Joseph C. Witt (Eds.).  2006.  Getting Ready for RtI: Staf Training on Key Principles and Implementation Issues.  LRP Publications, West Palm Beach, FL: 28 min. DVD.

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Examples

Student Progress Monitoring Sheet

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