How to fill in the gaps using Progress Monitoring Data… Jolene Hori, Consulting Teacher PAR

Grouping students for instruction based on student skill, monitoring their progress over small periods of time, adjusting instruction based on the data and providing kids feedback on their performance is one of the most powerful sets of educational practices that exists. Treatment/InterventionEffect Size Special Education Placement-.14 to.29 Modality Matched Instruction (Auditory) +.03 Modality Matched Instruction (Visual) +.04 Curriculum-Based Instruction/ Graphing and Formative Evaluation +.70 Curriculum-Based Instruction, Graphing, Formative Evaluation and Systematic use of Reinforcement +1.00

Little JoAnn-A Case Study

5 Oral Reading Fluency, JoAnn, Grade 2 Put your heads together… What can you understand from the benchmark data on this graph? What happened between the first and last months of school? Learning Trajectory

6 Oral Reading Fluency, JoAnn, Grade 2 Learning Trajectory To what might you attribute JoAnn’s progress?

7 Oral Reading Fluency, JoAnn, Grade 2 Learning Trajectory What do you see happening during the middle of the year? What factors may have contributed to the drop?

8 Oral Reading Fluency, JoAnn, Grade 2 Learning Trajectory What instructional changes could have contributed to this accelerated progress?

9 Oral Reading Fluency, JoAnn, Grade 2 Why is progress monitoring an effective tool? Learning Trajectory

Your classroom…

12 9/27/11 10 minutes 3 days a wk During small group instruction Working on Accuracy Fluency- high frequency words Words with Long Vowels Every 2 weeks Small Group Plan Red Group- JoAnn, Marco, Isabel, Brian

Goal JoAnn Classroom Intervention I Making instructional decisions based on the review and analysis of student data Progress monitoring always includes graphing Progress Monitoring 13

14 9/27/11 10 minutes 3 days a wk During small group instruction Working on Accuracy Fluency- high frequency words Words with Long Vowels Every 2 weeks 10/30/11 5 days a wk Red Group- JoAnn, Marco, Isabel, Brian Small Group Plan

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Goal JoAnn Classroom Intervention I Progress Monitoring JoAnn Classroom Intervention 2 16 What do you see happening with the data points? Why do you think this happened?

JoAnn got 30 wpm on DIBELS Fluency out of a possible wpm is a reasonable goal. The goal will go up to 72 wpm by mid-year. Treasures Teachers Pay Teachers FCRR.org 95% Group Materials 1.Student history shows that she has been struggling since kindergarten – she needs more time in small group. 1. Small group instruction-4 students 2. 3 days a week minutes a day 4. Fluency practice Accuracy of long vowel words Fluency of high frequency words 5. PM every 2 weeks

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