Student Interventions
Our easyCBM interventions are a template-based feature, in the Deluxe version, that provides teachers with a way to log interventions they are providing for their students. The template progresses through a series of item selections such as curriculum, subject, strategy choices, ratio, intensity, and frequency of the intervention.
Because interventions can vary so much in context, and educators need to be able to personalize them for their students' needs, the easyCBM system does not tell teachers what interventions to use with their students. Instead, we offer a way for a teacher to identify students who might need additional instructional supports, log the interventions that are provided to them, and then track and monitor the resulting progress their students are making. In addition, our template list also incorporates a brief summary of their evidence of effectiveness (based on What Works Clearinghouse reports).
Intervention information appears on the students' individual reports once there is data there to create a report (but not until then). So. in order for the you to see the intervention lines you first have to administer some tests. (and for the lines to show up on the graph, the first assessment has to take place within two weeks of the intervention being applied, otherwise, the intervention line will be "off the chart" to the left of the graph being displayed in the report. If more than 2 weeks has elapsed, you can go in and adjust the date for when the intervention was applied so it doesn't "fall off" the side of the graph.
The intervention lines, which will always display on the Individual graphs, are an important part of interpreting the information those graphs display. The way the interpretation works is that you look for an improvement (high scores, and/or steeper rate of improvement) after an intervention than before an intervention, and that improvement helps you decide the degree to which the intervention is working. In other words, you look for a ‘response’ to the intervention’, with the ‘response' graphically displayed by the line showing student progress over time, and the ‘intervention’ graphically displayed by the vertical intervention lines on the graph.
When implementing the intervention log, teachers will still need to provide instruction to their students outside of the easyCBM system. The logs then assists in monitoring the effectiveness of instruction, the appropriateness of assigned measures, and the evaluation of how students are doing.
Once you complete a template, and administer an assessment, information from your intervention notes (as well as the students' scores on the assessments) show up on the individual's graphs.
For detailed information on how to initiate a student intervention, please refer to Assign Students to Interventions on page 95 of the easyCBM User's Manual