Progress Monitoring

Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring is used to assess students’ academic performance, to quantify a student rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.

Progress monitoring in Tier II or III may include:

• CBM probes

• Intervention materials/kits assessments (requirements: national %iles, allow for repeated measures, sensitive to change, and specific to an area of deficit so that the rate of improvement can be transferred to graph form)

• Computer based assessments (requirements: national %iles, allow for repeated measures, sensitive to change, and specific to an area of deficit so that the rate of improvement can be transferred to graph form)

Students should have at least 4 data points before a change in intervention should be considered. Only one to two variables should be changed at a time in order to measure the effectiveness of the change.

Changes may include: increasing the frequency of sessions, changing interventions, changing providers, changing the time of day the intervention is delivered, etc.

A minimum of 8-10 data points (if progress monitoring every other week) are required before making a decision to move a student to a more intense intervention.

Students placed immediately in Tier III should be given adequate time to respond to interventions before a SPED referral is made. They might require several rounds of Tier III intervention before making a decision. Placing a student in Tier III intervention is necessary to increase the INTENSITY not to shorten the duration of the intervention before making a referral to SPED. A student might receive Tier III intervention for the entirety of their educational career if that is what they need in order to maintain their skills.

Rate of Improvement should be used to determine if a student is making adequate progress. This helps to drive decisions about changing interventions, increasing intensity, etc.

EasyCBM, iReady, and STAR are the progress monitoring tools used most often in Houston County Schools.