Developing progress monitoring measures: Parallel test construction from the item-up

Progress monitoring is a process of collecting ongoing samples student work and tracking performance individual students over time. involves administering parallel sets items to the same on regular basis (at least monthly) that are sensitive changes in student’s understanding based instruction. The administered time should be difficulty so differences can attributed as opposed variability item across sets. In this manuscript, we describe an approach designing controls item-level by constraining features may elicit different cognitive processing. This adapts principles Automated Item Generation (AIG) includes carefully test specifications, isolating specific components content will assessed, creating models serve templates, duplicating templates create clones, verifying duplicated clones align with original model. An example from operational progress system for mathematics Kindergarten through Grade 6 used illustrate process. We also propose future studies empirically evaluate assertion form difficulty.