Elementary Tier 2 Manual

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

Monitor Progress

Progress monitoring is “a scientifcally based practice that is used to assess students’ academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.” (National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, 2016). Progress monitoring is a key component of MTSS, involving frequent measurement of student performance on a specifc targeted skill for the purposes of:

● measuring student growth toward a targeted objective or goal, ● making decisions about the intervention’s effectiveness, and

● determining how and when to continue, adapt, or discontinue the intervention. Progress monitoring has been demonstrated to have a high effect size on student achievement, particularly when data are graphed, shared with students, and decision rules are used to determine when an intervention is working or needs to be intensifed.

Visual representation of progress monitoring data using graphs aids in team decision making. Each progress monitoring assessment is represented by a data point on an individual student’s graph. This allows teams to track that student’s growth over time to monitor the student’s progress toward an established goal. Team decisions resulting in changes in intervention strategies (e.g., improving fdelity, increasing or decreasing intensity, adding intervention components), should be documented by the team and shown by a vertical intervention line on the student’s graph.

DRAFT Students currently performing below or well-below benchmark on curriculum-based or skill-based measures should be regularly progress monitored. Best practice for frequency of progress monitoring outlines that those performing well-below benchmark should be progress monitored consistently after every 1 to 2 weeks of instruction and those below benchmark should be progress monitored every 2 to 4 weeks. Students who are performing at grade-level should not be progress monitored; screening three times per year is suffcient. To best inform problem solving and accurate decision-making, progress monitoring data need to be shared with all teachers and families responsible for a student’s learning, the student, and the members of the PLC team (and/or SST if appropriate) on a consistent and regular basis. The successful execution of progress monitoring relies on a collaborative effort between teachers and instructional coaches. By aligning interventions, using suitable materials, and adapting to the platform’s functionalities, we can achieve a meaningful assessment of student progress and intervention effectiveness.

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