Progress Monitoring offers a clear, practical, and urgently needed guide for turning student data into meaningful educational action. David F. Bateman moves the conversation beyond collecting scores and documenting compliance, showing educators how to establish sound baselines, interpret growth, respond to insufficient progress, and connect instruction to outcomes. Grounded in the realities of special education practice and legal accountability, this book will be an invaluable resource for teachers, administrators, service providers, and IEP teams committed to ensuring that progress monitoring genuinely improves students' opportunities to learn.

Mitchell Yell, Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair of Teacher Education and Professor of Special education, University of South Carolina

Following the Endrew F. decision, the importance of effective, meaningful progress monitoring procedures used by IEP teams in their decision-making has been highlighted on an increasingly frequent basis. This book by Dr. David Bateman will prove to be an invaluable resource for districts, teachers and parents who are concerned with high-quality progress monitoring as the centerpiece of their evidenced-based practices and services on behalf of students with disabilities. Dr. Bateman's text offers – all in one place - the examples and experiences of a practitioner, the knowledge and wisdom of a professor, and the insight and advice of a trusted due process hearing officer. It should be the “go to” resource for special educators everywhere.

Jim Shriner, Director Emeritus, IEP Quality Project, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign