True Progress

Guidance on how to use TMP to help drive educational decision-making

Improving Student Learning

Track My Progress is a nationally normed assessment that allows you to track progress relative to the national average.

What is the average expected progress for each grade level?

An explanation of the Progress Rate statistic

What is a Progress Rate?

The Table view of progress will display student progress for a school, grade, class, or student from one test window to another test window.

How do I view student progress from one test window to another test window?

This article explains how Track My Progress can be used for educational goal setting.

How do I set an end-of-year goal for a student?

Possible explanations for a strong student receiving a very low Track My Progress score.

How do you explain a strong student receiving a very low score?

Evaluating Student Progress

Universal Screening is the first step in an educator's use of data in a school-wide multi-level instructional system.

How do I use Track My Progress for Universal Screening?

This article provides a table for the proficiency ranges for each test window and grade level.

Can you tell me the scores range for each proficiency category by test window and grade level?

Determining Developmental Levels

When a student skips many test questions or guesses on many questions, this indicates that the student was not engaged in the test process.

What do you recommend if a  student has skipped many test questions?

How to review skipped questions and how they affect a student's score

How do I check whether a student skipped questions?

This article explains how some accommodations on assessments to uncover student needs can be counter productive.

Accommodations on Screening, Diagnostic, Inventory and Progress Assessments Can Mask Student Needs

Identifying Skill Gaps

An article describing how Track My Progress data can be one source to inform your instructional groupings.

How can I use Track My Progress to help form instructional groups?

Provides suggestions on what to do if all scores in a class are the same color.

All of the scores for students in my class are the same color. Where are my instructional groups?

Working With Supergroups

Here is a discussion on sharing data with parents, with some examples.

How do I share Track My Progress scores with parents?

The below text can be used and modified as a template for a letter to send home to parents explaining the True Progress Screener report.

Do you have a letter we can send home with the Screener report?

This letter template can be used to inform parents about the transition to True Progress.

How do LD-focused schools explain the transition to True Progress assessments?

Sharing Data With Parents

Once a student has completed an assessment, you can view data instantly by signing in to your Track My Progress account. 

Can you give me an overview of how I can use Track My Progress data to improve learning?

When using data to guide decision-making in almost any field it is important to recognize the limitations of a single data point.

Is it correct to base an educational decision for a student on one test score?

A student test may be deleted by a district or school administrator. When the student retests, those scores will have asterisks.

One of my students has an asterisk next to his test score. What does this mean?

This article guides educators using Track My Progress with younger students.

Are test scores reliable for kindergarten students who have very little computer experience?

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