Decision rules
How many data points to wait for, when to change an intervention, and what to do when a goal is mastered or stalled.
Decision Rules: When to Change an IEP Intervention
Four-point, trend line, and median-of-three decision rules from NCII, with minimum data, a worked example, and what to check before you change a plan.
Goal Not Progressing? A Checklist Before You Change
A ten-step checklist for flat progress data: check the measure, aimline, fidelity, dosage, alignment, transfer, and the cause before you change a plan.
How Many Data Points Before You Decide?
What NCII and the MTSS Center say about how many data points a baseline, a trend, and a decision need, and how monitoring frequency sets how long you wait.
IEP Goal Mastered: What to Do Next With the Data
What it means to master an IEP goal, how NCII's rules and behavior guide point to raising the goal or fading supports, and what the IDEA review rule says.
Rate of Improvement Explained, With a Calculator
Calculate rate of improvement, compare growth so far with growth needed, and set a goal from national norms, with a browser calculator and NCII's formulas.