***Using Data-Based Instruction to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Students Who are Difficult to Teach***
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Topic 9: Making Data-Based Decisions and Reporting Progress

Focus Questions for Topic 9

1. Are your instructional interventions creating the desired changes in the learner?

2. What decisions are you making?

3. How will your report your results?

As you answer these focus questions, you will be completing Section 6 of your report of the Data-Based Instruction Project. Evaluating the Impact of the Instructional Intervention: Making Data-Based Decisions

Now that you have decided on some changes to make in your teaching environment, continue to monitor the academic performance of your learner as you implement your changes. Notice the impact of those changes on the learner's performance.

Now is you opportunity to make your own "data-based decisions." (For a refresher about how to do this, refer to Topic 2 and check Topic 4 again.)

Are the measures of your learner's academic progress showing an increase? Then your data-based decision may be to continue implementing the changed instruction.

Are the measures of your learner's academic progress showing a decrease? If a decrease is what you wanted, for example in the case of decreasing errors in oral reading accuracy, then you may want to continue your instructional program.

If you did not want a decrease in the measures, then you may decide to stop implementing your changed instruction and proceed to your next planned intervention.

DBI Report Section 6: Progress Report

As you complete this section of your Data-Based Instruction Project, be sure to write in such a way that others would be able to do as you do. This section should include:

evidence that data-based decisions were made (e.g., placement in curriculum sequence, to continue or change in instruction (antecedents or consequences), change in learner's objective or academic behavior, etc).

evidence of "reflective" teaching (e.g., describes learner progress in relationship to instructional design, discusses personal growth understanding of the demands of being a professional special educator accountable for instructional design, etc.).

recommendations for future actions with this learner.

Congratulations! You are now ready to complete Part 6 of your Data-Based Instruction Project!

Please enter the following information:

Name

E-mail address

The answers to these Focus Questions comprise Section 6 of the DBI Project: The Progress Report!

1. What "data-based" decisions did I make (did I change the learner's placement in the curriculum; continue or change antecedents or consequences; change the learner's objective; and so on)?

2. What is my evidence of "reflective teaching" (e.g., describing learner progress in relationship to instructonal design; discussing my personal understanding of DBI; and so on)?

Now, please give us some feedback about your experience with DBI Project Part 6.

a. About how many hours did you spend working on DBI Part 6?

b. What (if any) problems did you have in completing DBI Part 6, either with the content area or with the technology?

c. What recommendations would you make to improve DBI Part 6?