Collect goal data your team can use at the annual review
Measurement types, goal wording, collection schedules, and progress reporting. How to turn the support you already give into IEP evidence your team can review.
The Complete Guide to IEP Progress Monitoring
How to monitor IEP progress: five measurement types, a collection schedule you can keep, baselines, weekly and monthly reviews, and report sentences built from data.
17 min read · Updated 2026-09-14
Guides in this track
Choosing the Right Measurement Type for an IEP Goal
Match an IEP goal to one of eight measurement types, from binary, frequency, and duration to rate, latency, and task analysis, with worked examples.
Writing Measurable IEP Goals: A Wording Bank
The four parts of a measurable IEP goal, 12 vague-to-measurable rewrites, 8 behavior goal starters with the matching data sheet, and the criterion traps to avoid.
From Daily Notes to IEP Progress Report
Turn a quarter of daily notes into an IEP progress report: what a usable note contains, how to tag it to a goal, four checks before export, and trend wording that fits the data.
Prompt Hierarchy and Prompt-Level Data for IEP Goals
The six prompt levels from independent to full physical, most-to-least vs least-to-most prompting, fading plans, and how to score prompted trials.
Interval Recording Explained: Partial, Whole, Momentary
Partial interval, whole interval, and momentary time sampling compared on one session, with interval length guidance and the percent calculation.
Trial-by-Trial Data: Trials, Percent Correct, and Criteria
How many trials to run per session, how to calculate percent correct across sessions, and how to read mastery criteria like 80% across 3 sessions.
Graphing IEP Progress Data: Baseline, Aim Line, Trend
How to graph IEP goal data: set a baseline, draw an aim line to the annual target, add a trend line, and apply common data decision rules to a worked graph.
IEP Progress Report Comments: Examples by Progress Status
IEP progress report comment examples for goal met, sufficient progress, some progress, insufficient progress, and not yet introduced, each with a family version.
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