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Four points under the line means change something.

Enter the baseline, the goal and the scores. The organizer draws the goal line, applies the four-point rule, compares the trend with the rate the goal needs and tells you what to bring to the team.

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The decision rules organizer

One record per student and measure, under a student code. The example scores are made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each student and measure, the goal line, the four-point decision, the trend against the rate needed and a projection to the goal date.
Who it is for
MTSS teams, intervention teachers, school psychologists and specialists who read progress monitoring data.
Format
Browser organizer updated after each progress check. One saved record per student and measure; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV of the scores; export and import a file.
Access
$19 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 change, then the line bends
Drawn for this page. When four points sit under the goal line, the team changes the intervention and draws a line on the graph to mark when.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student code and the date the intervention began.
  2. Enter the measure, baseline and goal with dates.
  3. Add each score as you give the check.
  4. Read the four-point decision and the trend.
  5. Confirm the intervention was delivered as planned before changing course.

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What the organizer is for

The four-point rule

Draw a line from the baseline to the goal. If the four most recent consecutive scores all fall below it, the intervention is not working well enough and should change. If all four are above it, raise the goal. Otherwise keep going and keep collecting.

The trend rule

With enough points, compare the slope of the student’s scores with the slope of the goal line. A flatter trend calls for a change; a steeper one for a higher goal. Many teams wait for six to eight or more points, since a slope from a few scores swings widely.

What this is not

A calculator for the rules, not a judgment about the student. It assumes higher scores are better and does not set goals from norms; use your measure’s own guidance for that.

Sources

  1. National Center on Intensive Intervention (American Institutes for Research, funded by the U.S. Department of Education), Using Academic Progress Monitoring for Individualized Instructional Planning, data decision rules.
  2. Fuchs, L. S., and Fuchs, D., What Is Scientifically-Based Research on Progress Monitoring? National Center on Student Progress Monitoring.
  3. Deno, S. L. (1985), Curriculum-based measurement: the emerging alternative, Exceptional Children 52(3).
  4. Ardoin, S. P., Christ, T. J., Morena, L. S., Cormier, D. C., and Klingbeil, D. A. (2013), A systematic review and summarization of the recommendations and research surrounding CBM of oral reading fluency decision rules, Journal of School Psychology 51(1).

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