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Progress monitoring with aimswebPlus is simple to administer, does not take a lot of time, and is easy to score. As teachers regularly progress monitors students, aimswebPLUS will track the data to monitor growth and document the student’s response to instruction. By frequently administering progress monitoring assessments, aimswebPLUS is able to determine the student’s rate of improvement (ROI).
The ROI can be used to compare the expected growth and the students growth to determine, if adequate progress is being made or if changes are needed to improve the student's growth. The CBM measures are brief and reliable. Each assessment is available with multiple equivalent forms to be used over the school year. In order to effectively monitor progress, progress monitoring is conducted at the student’s ability level. Progress monitoring cannot be conducted more than once a week.
Areas to Monitor
Deciding which areas to monitor is important. Typically, you will monitor students when they score at or below the 25th percentile when compared to national norm scores. These scores would be in yellow or orange. aimswebPlus automatically marks CBM scores that fall in the Below Average and Well Below Average range with the goal setting icon.
Grade to Monitor
Deciding what grade level to monitor is important. Students who are functioning below grade level will show very little progress when they are monitored at grade level. Students should be monitored at their highest instructional level. Determining the grade level to progress monitoring a goal is done by analyzing the student’s scores.
For students in the Well Below Average range, below the 11th percentile, a survey level assessment (SLA) is recommended to identify the appropriate grade level for progress monitoring. The goal of SLA is to find the student’s instructional level and the grade level to use when creating a progress monitoring schedule. SLA is a process of administered below grade level CBMs. This is done by testing backwards one grade level at a time until the student’s performance between the 11th - 25th percentile.
Creating a Schedule
Teachers can start a progress monitoring schedule by clicking the goal setting icon next to the assessment and grade they want to monitor. There are three steps to creating a schedule: a baseline score, a goal date, and a goal score. A baseline score is the first score in the monitoring schedule. This will be the benchmark score or a SLA score. The goal date is the end date for progress monitoring. This can be the end of the school year or when the IEP ends. The goal score is the score you want the students to achieve by the goal date. You want to set a goal that will help close the learning gap.
Complete the simulation below to learn how to set a progress monitoring goal.
Follow the steps above for each area you want to set a goal for.
You have now finished the aimswebPLUS online training. Save this website and use it as a resource as you start using aimswebPLUS within your own classroom.
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