Prompt Level Data Sheet
A free printable prompt level data sheet for tracking how much support a student needed on each trial, and whether that support is fading over time. Free to print, copy, and hand to a paraeducator. No account, no email address.
Use this sheet when the goal reads like
- “will complete the hand-washing routine with no more than 1 verbal prompt”
- “will request a break independently, fading from a gestural prompt”
- “will begin independent work after a single verbal direction”
Most goals get scored correct or incorrect, which makes a student look stuck while the real change is happening underneath: the same step, with less help. Reading down the last column is usually the fastest way to show a family or a team that a flat-looking goal is moving. If your goal is written with a target prompt level in it, this sheet is the one that matches the wording.
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Prompt Level Data Sheet
| Date | Skill / step | Trial 1 | Trial 2 | Trial 3 | Trial 4 | Trial 5 | Least prompt today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prompt key: I = independent · V = verbal · G = gestural · M = model · PP = partial physical · FP = full physical
- Write the prompt code in each trial box rather than a tick. The code is the data; a tick only tells you the step happened.
- Fill the last column with the least intrusive prompt the student succeeded with that day. That single column is the progress line.
- Leave a box blank if the opportunity did not come up. A blank is honest; a full physical you did not actually give is not.
Free printable from evidentk12.com/iep-data-sheets
When the paper sheet stays on your desk
Paper works right up until the moment happens across the room. If you would rather record the same data point from whatever tab you are already in, Evident Capture is a free Chrome extension that takes about ten seconds, offline included.
The other sheets
- Trial-Based IEP Data Sheet — Goals measured as correct trials out of a total.
- Frequency Data Sheet — Goals measured as a count of occurrences.
- Duration Data Sheet — Goals measured in elapsed time.
- Yes / No IEP Data Sheet — Goals recorded as met or not met, once per opportunity.
- Interval Recording Sheet — Goals measured as a percentage of intervals.