Post-Assessment and Evaluating Interventions

• Brief summary of the data analysis and discussion with your mentor
• Discussion of how working with your mentor throughout the intervention process has helped you more effectively meet the needs of each student.

Data Analysis and Discussion with My Mentor

Student one was able to correctly identify 26/26 lowercase letters, 26/26 uppercase letters, and 25/33 sounds. That’s a consistent knowledge of lowercase letters. A gain of one upper case letter and consistent knowledge of 25. Student one lost three sounds in the final assessment from the previous progress monitoring. It’s a gain of five sounds from the beginning of the intervention. After a discussion with my mentor, it was decided that intervention is going to continue to support student one with automaticity of the letters. 

Student two did not make progress towards the goal of producing a rhyme. Technically he did produce a rhyme for two of the words but student two parroted ones that were part of the whole group discussion earlier in the day. After a discussion with my mentor, it was decided that intervention is going to continue for student two but the activities being done are going to change based on the no change in the data. 

Student three was able to isolate the initial sound in 8/10 words. This is an increase of one initial sound from previous progress monitoring and two sounds from the baseline. After a discussion with my mentor, it was decided that intervention is going to continue for student three because the student missed over 70% of the intervention in person-days. 

It was a delight to learn from my mentor and learn from her. She is a data whiz. I learned a lot about how to use our data program to more effectively apply that data. I also learned a lot from her about taking into account the whole child and not just what is reflected in the data. Just looking at the data of my students you would never know that one just transitioned out of foster care and one was quarantined and is overcoming COVID.   She reminded me how important it is to consider those things when analyzing the data.