Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data

How can a teacher can interpret the information from the student’s graph using the Four-Point Method

After making adaptations to an intervention, the teacher needs to collect and analyze progress monitoring data to determine how the student is responding to the intervention. To obtain a reliable estimate, he or she must collect data for a minimum of six weeks (or six data points if data are collected more than once per week). After graphing the data, the teacher can evaluate the student’s performance using the Four-Point Method, an easy method for examining the relationship between the four most recent data points and the goal line. The figures below illustrate how a teacher can interpret the information from the student’s graph using the Four-Point Method.

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