aimswebPlus & aimswebPlus Canadian Edition

Recommended Audience:
This session is ideal for:

• Interventionists
• Instructional Coaches
• Administrators
• Educators

…who are beginning to use aimswebPlus for progress monitoring or want to strengthen their foundational understanding.

Description:
This 3-hour interactive session introduces the foundational components of progress monitoring within aimswebPlus. This session is designed for individuals who have previously attended Benchmarking Essentials and Benchmarking Data Utilization. Participants are expected to have foundational skills in administering benchmarking assessments and interpreting benchmarking data. Prior experience in these areas is essential for fully engaging with the session content and activities. The session starts by showing how survey assessments can identify students' instructional levels, especially when benchmarking data indicates a need to track off-grade performance. Participants will then learn how to create progress monitoring schedules, including selecting appropriate measures, identifying reasonable goals, and understanding the purpose and structure of progress monitoring plans. The session will also explore how to identify which students require monitoring, how to begin tracking their progress, and how to navigate the aimswebPlus platform to support these efforts. By the end, participants will be equipped to launch progress monitoring with accuracy and intention.

What Participants Should Know Before Attending:
This session doesn’t cover administration or scoring guidelines for all the available measures, but it does provide guidance on how and where to practice by using resources found in the help library. Management support for customer accounts, including settings and rostering, as well as the reading and interpretation of aimswebPlus benchmarking or progress monitoring reports, will not be provided. We will be using a sandbox account to practice and interact with the platform during this session; participants will not be in their active accounts. Please ensure access to a device for full participation in hands-on activities. Participants will receive and are encouraged to print handouts prior to the session.

Learning Objectives:

• Prepare participants to conduct survey level assessments to accurately determine each student’s instructional level.
• Enable participants to use benchmark and/or survey level assessment data to establish progress monitoring schedules.
• Help participants plan a data collection process that can be implemented with fidelity and result in meaningful student progress data.