IPASt

Intervention Planning and Assessment System.v.two

(IPASt)David Putnam, Jr., Ph.D.

Oregon RTI

Why IPASt?

Effects of Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring has been extensively researched in Special Education (Fuchs & Fuchs, 1986)

Students showed improved reading scores when teachers: monitored their progress (+.70 effect size) graphed their reading scores (+.80 effect size) used decisions rules to determine whether to make a

change in instruction while monitoring student progress (+.90 effect size)

Why We Monitor Progress

+26 %ile

points

+29 %ile

points

+32 %ile

points

For your typical student that’s a gain of…

A Brief History of IPASA Simple Idea, Scope Creep, and the Big Bang

What Is IPAS?

• Electronic system for – Managing universal screening and progress monitoring

data– Enhanced decision making in an RTI system– IPAS is NOT a BROAD BAND data management system

(i.e., eSIS, Data Warehouse)

• Data is organized into three “clusters” – Lists of all students & all available data– Lists of all students in interventions– Individual student pages with intervention data, graphs,

and other documents

What Are The Primary Functions?

• Identifying students in need of intervention

• Progress monitoring• Data analysis and intervention decision

making• Generating individual graphic student

reports

Where Does IPAS Reside?

• Hosted on TTSD server• IPAS is web-based and would be

accessed via your district website• TTSD has four levels of security:

– District Administrator– District User– School User – Teacher

• Security managed by each district

Who Uses IPAS in TTSD?

• Primarily: Literacy/Reading Specialists, Learning Specialists, Other Interventionists

• Secondarily: District Administrators & Coaches, Building Principals, Teachers

How Are Data Entered?

• Group data can be uploaded by transferring a data set (i.e., DIBELS ORF, AIMSweb Maze Scores) into an Excel spreadsheet and then into IPAS

• Individual student data can be entered directly by users with the right “write” access

What Are the Benefits?

• Brings student progress data to life• Makes the data accessible to all• Automatically generates graphs with aimlines

& trendlines, and applies decision rules• Can be used in meetings to display and

analyze data in real time• Electronically stores student information for

further review and analysis• Flexible system that can be customized

IPAS Demo

Installation: TTSD Hosted Web-Solution

• IPAS is a web-based solution hosted by TTSD.

• A district IPAS “Administrator” (person or persons administering the program at the district level) is assigned a name and password. The District administrator in turns assigns user names and passwords for each user within the district.

• The program can be pre-populated with TTSD assessments, benchmarks, and decision rules that can be customized for district use.

Installation: Download to District Server

• Alternatively, IPAS can be downloaded to your district server and installed locally

• District is then responsible for maintenance and modifications

• Requires Sequel Server (does not require large capacity)

• Approximately 1 day of tech time to install

Remember….

• We are not Microsoft

Questions???

• David Putnam:dputnam@ttsd.k12.or.us