How are the recommendations on the instructional recommendations report generated?

The recommendations are generated based on an equation where each measure within a category is equally weighted. Within each measure scores are broken down into Percentiles, and the percentiles ranges are assigned a color. This applies to the AIMSweb default reporting method.

90th percentile: Well Above Average------White
90th - 75th percentile: Above Average------Blue
75th - 25th percentile: Average----------------Green
25th - 10th percentile: Below Average------Yellow
10th percentile: Well Below Average------Red

• An individual student may score in the White or blue range across all measures. This will generate the “Benchmark – At Grade Level” message.
• An individual student may score in the Green range across all measures. This will generate the “Strategic – Additional Intervention” message.
• An individual student may score in the Yellow or Orange range across all measures. This will generate the “Intensive – Needs Substantial Intervention” message.

The Strategic message is a recommendation for the student to potentially be added to Strategic Monitoring. This is a monthly assessment using grade level Progress Monitor probes and provides further data to ensure the student is indeed progressing at a desired rate, or potentially may need more individualized instructional attention.