WHAT IS PROGRESS MONITORING?
The Australian Islamic College is the only school in Western Australia, which monitors, evaluates and provides feedback to parents on each student’s progress on a weekly basis. We at the AIC introduced this system to enable the college to constantly monitor each individual student and their progress in all of their classes in order to provide constant guidance and assistance at an individual level. Parents get sent an update on student performance every fortnight to keep them informed of their students level and performance. Students at other schools do not have the opportunity to obtain this extent of constant attention and care given to their academic progress and development.
Both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) require that students are provided with research-based instruction and progress monitoring before entering special education. Progress monitoring involves frequent, brief measures of progress using curriculum-based measurements (CBM) to determine whether students are learning what is taught and what specific skill(s) may need more intensive instruction. Research has found that the best method of progress-monitoring is Curriculum-Based Measurement such as fluency measures (e.g., words correct per minute or wcpm). (http://www.nrcld.org/resource_kit/parent/What_Is_Progress_Monitoring2007.pdf Progress monitoring of ALL students begins with screening early and often against grade level standards, usually three times a year (e.g., DIBELS, Aimsweb). If a student needs a more intensive intervention, the frequency of progress monitoring increases. Baseline data is the starting point in progress m
