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Jessica R. Toste; Marissa J. Filderman; Nathan H. Clemens; Erica Fry – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Data-based instruction (DBI) is a process in which teachers use progress data to make ongoing instructional decisions for students with learning disabilities. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a common form of progress monitoring, and CBM data are placed on a graph to guide decision-making. Despite the central role that graph interpretation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Data Use, Decision Making, Progress Monitoring
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Hammerschmidt-Snidarich, Stephanie M.; Wagner, Dana; Parker, David C.; Wagner, Kyle – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
This study examined reading tutors' interpretation of reading progress-monitoring graphs. A think-aloud procedure was used to evaluate tutors at two points in time, before and after a year of service as an AmeriCorps reading tutor. During their service, the reading tutors received extensive training and ongoing coaching. Descriptive results showed…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Tutors, Progress Monitoring, Graphs
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van den Bosch, Roxette M.; Espin, Christine A.; Chung, Siuman; Saab, Nadira – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
Teachers have difficulty using data from Curriculum-based Measurement (CBM) progress graphs of students with learning difficulties for instructional decision-making. As a first step in unraveling those difficulties, we studied teachers' comprehension of CBM graphs. Using think-aloud methodology, we examined 23 teachers' ability to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Graphs, Progress Monitoring, Learning Problems
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Wagner, Dana L.; Hammerschmidt-Snidarich, Stephanie M.; Espin, Christine A.; Seifert, Kathleen; McMaster, Kristen L. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
Teachers must be proficient at using data to evaluate the effects of instructional strategies and interventions, and must be able to make, describe, justify, and validate their data-based instructional decisions to parents, students, and educational colleagues. An important related skill is the ability to accurately read and interpret…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Progress Monitoring, Curriculum Based Assessment, Teacher Competencies
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Phillips, Jeffrey A.; Clemmer, Katharine W.; McCallum, Jeremy E. B.; Zachariah, Thomas M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
Well-developed, problem-solving skills are essential for any student enrolled in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) course as well as for graduates in the workforce. One of the most essential skills is the ability to monitor one's own progress and understanding while solving a problem. Successful monitoring during the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Models, STEM Education, Skill Development
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Shang, Hui-Fang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The effective use of reading strategies has been recognized as an important way to increase reading comprehension in hypermedia environments. The purpose of the study was to explore whether metacognitive strategy use and access to hypermedia annotations facilitated reading comprehension based on English as a foreign language students' proficiency…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension