Is there a criteria of placing students in intensive or strategic for progress monitoring?
We have informal standards at this point–usually, the “aim line” calculated from observed growth of children without known risks. A more focused, and validated, basis for placing students into tiers of service (within an RtI model) is the direct focus of our work right now on a new IES-funded project, the Center for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood. We hope to have these new and improved criteria in place by Spring 2009.
