WYOMING’S FOCUSED MONITORING COSF Information is assessed through the Self Assessment….

THE GOOD What is going well with COSFs.

C 3 and B 7 Percent of infants/toddlers and preschool children demonstrating improved: positive social- emotional skills; acquisition and use of knowledge and skills; use of appropriate behaviors.

Part C Self Assessment Directions for Reviewing the COSF Records should be randomly selected from a list of all children who entered early intervention, received services, or exited the program between July 1 and June 30 of the current fiscal year. Additionally, programs must ensure that at least 3 out of every 10 records selected are children who exited Part C and transitioned to preschool special education during the year. Remember, this is a retrospective data collection and only those activities that occurred during FY 2007-2008 should be reviewed in the child’s record.   This is our monitoring process for Part C at this time.

Reviewing the COSF in the Part C Self Assessment The reviewer should review COSFs completed during the fiscal year and consider the following when reviewing COSFs:

Question Does the child’s initial and/or exit COSF include functional evidence that is appropriate for each outcome area and that is consistent with the rating provided by the team? (quality)

Guidance for Record Review Part C Is the evidence provided on the COSF functional information about the child’s skills and behaviors? Is the evidence provided for each outcome clearly related to the appropriate outcome area? (Is the evidence for outcome 1 related to the child’s social and emotional skills including how the child relates to adults and peer? Is the evidence for outcome 2 related to the child’s thinking, reasoning and problem-solving skills? Is the evidence for outcome 3 related to how the child acts on the world to get his/her needs met?)

Guidance Part C cont. Is there a sufficient amount of evidence provided on the COSF to support the ratings given in each outcome area? Is the evidence provided consistent with the ratings given on the COSF? Is the evidence in the child’s file consistent with the ratings given on the COSF?

The Bad Wyoming last February went to a web based COSF system. This is a work in progress!!! But we are getting more valid and reliable data

Web Based COSF Designed by Data Driven Enterprises Wyoming’s web based COSF system The down and dirty of collections of data on the COSF system. Show our COSF web site

Wyoming’s Web based COSF

The Ugly How Wyoming is moving toward a way to check the validity and quality of our data.

The Quality Review From and ECO draft document dated 7/11/07 Questions to guide the review process Completeness Evidence corresponding to appropriate outcomes area Evidence to support ratings

Quality review checklist Adapted from Montana’s Verification of Data

Checklist cont.

Checklist cont.

The Future for Wyoming Trends in the areas of related services, individual teams of providers and looking at individual Child Development Center’s services and overall success of their programs and services. What is the future for Wyoming, monitoring and COSFs? Trends related to Child Find Trends in areas of related services Trends by individual preschools Trends by individual teams of providers Overall success of the program and services