National Center on
Student Progress Monitoring

What is 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.

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Web Resources

The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring (NCSPM) has exciting: downloadable articles, PowerPoint presentations, FAQs, and links to additional resources about student progress monitoring, Curriculum-Based Measurement, applying decision making to IEPs and other researched based topics. All of our publications are designed to inform and assist audiences in implementing student progress monitoring at the classroom, building, local or state level.

Discuss

The discussion boards allow people from across the country to share information and ideas. On this page, you will also find a link to current and previous issues of our monthly e-newsletter.

Review of Tools

Our Technical Review Committee regularly reviews tools and has created a chart of scientifically based tools to measure students' progress. Determine which one best fits your school's needs.

Calendar of Events

The calendar of events lists upcoming events that are relevant to student progress monitoring. 

 

What's New - updated 7/21/08

Save the Date! New Webinar on SPM and Data-Based Instruction on September 25!
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for the Center's final webinar on Data- Based Instruction in Special Education. This webinar, presented by Dr. Lynn Fuchs and Dr. Doug Fuchs, will focus on the use of curriculum-based measurement student progress monitoring data for individualizing and monitoring the effectiveness of instruction in special education. We'll be posting more information about how to participate in this exciting event soon.
Posted 7/21/08

 

Center Holds Workshop for Teacher Educators
On June 9th and 10th, our Center held the 2008 Student Progress Monitoring & Data-Based Instruction in Special Education workshop.  Workshop participants who teach at colleges all across the country heard expert speakers present materials on such topics as Data-Based Instruction, Introduction to Using CBM, Using CBM for Progress Monitoring in Reading and Math, Graphing and Interpreting CBM Scores, and Using CBM in RTI. Click here to view the workshop materials.
Posted 7/14/08

 

Did You Miss Our Interactive Chat on RTI?
On May 1, 2008 from 3:00 to 4:30 EDT, we held an interactive chat session on RTI. "Determining the Response in RTI" is particularly useful and relevant to practicing school psychologists and others who are responsible for establishing RTI decision-making criteria at school and district levels. Click here to read the transcript from this exciting event!
Updated 5/5/08

 

June Issue of The Progress Monitor
The June issue of The Progress Monitor, the Center’s free monthly e-newsletter, is now available on the newsletter archives page in our library. If you would like to receive The Progress Monitor, please sign up here.
Updated 7/07/08

 

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