Progress Monitoring

 Progress monitoring is a scientifically based practice that is used to assess students' academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. Progress monitoring can be implemented with individual students or an entire class.  Used extensively in an RtII setting or in special education to ensure that gaps in critical skills are closing, progress monitoring provides teachers and parents with a clear indication that intensive, targeted instruction is working.

A handy reference analyzing tools available for Progress Monitoring can be found at the National Center for Response to Intervention.  Tools are evaluated according to reliability, validity, norms and ability to track rate of improvement.  A great resource!

Another terrific online resource for FREE is Easy CBM.  Free probes with multiple forms, data management with graphs, some measures can be taken by students online, reports created for whole classes or individual students.  Measures are available in relevant grades from kindergarten through eighth grade for the following skill areas:

• Letter Names, Letter Sounds, Phoneme Segmenting
• Word reading fluency
• Passage Reading Fluency
• Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Questions
• Measurement
• Numbers and Operations
• Geometry
• Numbers, Operations and Algebra