Progress Monitoring

Selecting a Progress Monitoring Measure with Acadience Survey

Overview

Acadience Survey provides a systematic way for teams working with students participating in Intensifying Literacy Instruction to identify a student's instructional level; determine an appropriate level for progress monitoring and set instructional goals. To administer the assessment, teams need (1) DIBELS Survey Assessment Book, (1) student Survey scoring booklet/student, and a timing device. Depending on student performance, the measure will take between 5-20 minutes to administer.

Levels

1. Mastery Level: Highest level in which the student has demonstrated adequate skills for that grade level (level of material where the students scores are in the At or Above Benchmark range)

2. Instructional Level: The lowest level in which the student has not mastered the skills necessary for grade-level performance (typically 1 grade above the mastery level)

3. Progress Monitoring Level: Most likely the instructional level unless one of the following situations apply:

   • Student is working on phonological awareness and is older than kindergarten: use Phoneme Segmentation Fluency instead of First Sound Fluency

   • For Oral Reading Fluency: the optimal progress monitoring material is the highest level of material in which the student reads with at least 90% accuracy and their ORF words correct is above 20 (grade 1), 40 (grade 2), or 50 grade (3 and beyond)

Procedure for Administering

1. Begin 1 level below the student's current grade level.

   • Example: If working with a third grade student, begin with DORF level 2).

   • In Grade 1: begin with PSF

2. Test backwards, administering 3 probes at each level until you identify the students Mastery Level.

3. Identify student's instructional level.

4. Administer additional measures associated with that Level's composite score.

5. Select a progress monitoring measure.

6. Establish a goal (end of year benchmark for that grade level achieved in 1 semester)

   • Example: For a third grade student who is being tested on NSF:CLS. The goal would be that the target student would achieve a score of 58 (end of year benchmark for first grade students) on the NSF:CLS by the end of the semester.

Make a Plan for Progress Monitoring