Teaching · Related Services

Change the intervention when the data say so.

Enter the baseline, the goal and each probe, before and after any change. The organizer applies the four-point rule and shows whether the last change made a difference.

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The modification record

One record per student and intervention. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A four-point rule decision with each point against the aimline, medians before and after the change, and what to check.
Who it is for
School psychologists, interventionists, problem-solving teams and special education teachers.
Format
Browser form. One saved record per student and data date; printed for the team or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
a flat line, a change, a climb
Drawn for this page. A change to an intervention is a hypothesis; the data after it are the test.

How to use it

  1. Enter the measure, baseline and goal with their dates.
  2. Add each probe and mark it before or after the latest change.
  3. Check fidelity before changing anything.
  4. Record what you changed.
  5. Wait for four probes after a change before judging it.

Check the data

How the decision is made

The four-point rule

When the four most recent points all fall below the aimline, the intervention should change; when all four are above, the goal should rise; otherwise keep going. It is one of the decision rules used in data-based individualization.

Fidelity first

An intervention that was not delivered as planned has not been tested. Checking delivery is the first and cheapest step.

What this is not

A graphing package or a substitute for the team’s judgment.

Sources

  1. National Center on Intensive Intervention (2013). Data-Based Individualization: A Framework for Intensive Intervention. American Institutes for Research.
  2. Fuchs, L. S., & Fuchs, D. (2007). Using CBM for progress monitoring in reading. National Center on Student Progress Monitoring.
  3. Ardoin, S. P., Christ, T. J., Morena, L. S., Cormier, D. C., & Klingbeil, D. A. (2013). A systematic review and summarization of the recommendations and research surrounding curriculum-based measurement of oral reading fluency decision rules. Journal of School Psychology, 51(1), 1–18.
  4. Sanetti, L. M. H., & Kratochwill, T. R. (2009). Toward developing a science of treatment integrity. School Psychology Review, 38(4), 445–459.

The example student and data are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.