Upon completion of this chapter, the reader will understand:

• strategies for monitoring child progress
  
  
• strategies and suggestions for observing, documenting, analyzing, and interpreting data regarding individual children’s target behaviors
  
  
• strategies for selecting effective and efficient methods for documenting children’s progress
  
  
• strategies for summarizing data to guide decisions
  
  
• the importance of ongoing monitoring of children’s progress

PowerPoint Slides

• Figure 5.6a: A child’s writing over time (beginning-of-year sample)
  
  
• Figure 5.6b: A child’s writing over time (end-of-year sample)
  
  
• Figure 5.11: A written description (anecdotal note) with situational, performance, and summary information
  
  
• Figure 5.14: A matrix for organizing multiple children’s targeted behaviors across developmental and content areas
  
  
• Figure 5.15: A completed data collection form documenting children’s performance across different levels of problem-solving skills