Measurement workshop
A 40-minute exercise for a teacher and a paraprofessional to run together, working out what counts as an opportunity before anybody scores one.
Resources
Printable, blank, and free. Every example in them is fictional. They exist because the hard part of progress monitoring is usually not the arithmetic, it is getting four adults to agree what they are counting.
Before you collect
Agreement first. Everything downstream inherits whatever you settle here.
Measurable goal checklist
Eleven questions to ask of a goal before you try to monitor it. Most unmeasurable goals fail on two or three of them in a predictable way.
Teacher and para handoff kit
One page per goal that travels with whoever is collecting: the definition, the codes, the window, and who reviews it.
While you collect
Keeping the record honest as it grows.
Goal and protocol revision log
When the definition changes mid-year, the data before and after are not the same measurement. This is where you write down that it happened.
Worked examples
Ten situations that break a percentage: observed zeros, missed intervals, overlapping durations, prompted responses, rounded data with no denominators.
Spreadsheet starter
A blank workbook with the columns that stop a spreadsheet lying to you, and the formulas already in place. Download as CSV.
When you report
The part with a deadline attached.
Progress report prep kit
An evidence inventory, a period and scope check, the missing-data questions, and a review pass, in the order you actually need them.
Meeting data checklist
What to have in front of you, and the four questions you would rather ask yourself the day before than be asked in the room.
School and district approval pack
What this app actually does with data, in the form the person who has to approve it will ask for. Facts, not a compliance badge.
Everything here is free and stays free.
No email required for any of it. If a printed kit is all you needed, that is a good outcome and we are not going to make it worse to push an app on you.
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