On-grade student performance

To decide if a student needs progress monitoring, you will first need to determine if a student is performing on-grade,

The goal of the program is for a student to take a test on-grade and receive a score at the 50th percentile or better. This would indicate the student is performing on-grade for the test taken. Students that are performing on or above the 50th percentile need no extra assistance and should not be receiving testing until the next benchmark testing period.

To establish if a student is functioning at grade level, first administer on-grade benchmark tests, or screeners, These tests are only given on-grade (grades K-8) and once during the fall, winter, and spring. If you already know a student is performing below their grade in school, then don't give a benchmark test but instead administer progress monitoring measures.

Scoring at the 50th percentile, or better, at a given time of year, indicates a student is performing on-grade.and needs no extra assistance and should not be receiving testing until the next benchmark testing period. Those students performing below grade should be given progress monitoring measures, along with guided instruction, in order to assist their growth in a given subject area.

The percentile scores are generated from those students, in a nation-wide sample, who've taken on-grade benchmark tests during the fall, winter, and spring. Rather you took a benchmark test (Deluxe) or a progress monitoring one, you look at the total number your student got right and compare it to the scores other students in the same grade, and at the same time of year (Progress Monitoring Scoring Guidelines) received, this will provide you with a percentile score.