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Another Way to be
Alterable

Moving the focus from
alterable variables a
information about t
someth

Ken Howell

e Planful: Focus on
Variables

m unalterable variables to
allows educators to get
things that they can do
hing about

“Unalterable

“Unalterable” varia

– Those which educa
reasonably expecte

– Sometimes called
do not have a direc
on the quality of les

– Poor predictors of

Unalterable doesn’
unimportant

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ators cannot be
ed to change
“Distal Variables” as they
ct and immediate impact
ssons
individual student learning

’t automatically mean

“Alterable”

“Alterable” variable

– Educators can reas
change these throu
of instruction

– Sometimes called
are close to the lea
shown to directly a
quality of learning

– Alterable variables
individual student l

” variables:

es

sonably be expected to
ugh, or during, the process

“Proximal Variables” as they
arning event and have been
and immediately affect the

s are the best predictors of
learning

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alterable

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about things w
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to

variables

getting information
we can actually do
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Variables Related to S

Within Student

Alterable Desire to learn
Strategies for learning
Knowledge
Skills
Prior content knowledge
Self-efficacy/helplessness

Unalterable Race
(Hard to Genetic potential
Change) Gender/sex
Birth order
Disposition
Health
Physical differences
IQ
Disability category
Personal history

Student Achievement

t External to Student

Quality of curriculum
Quality of instruction
Pedagogical knowledge
Content knowledge
Quality of evaluation
s Quality of learning environment
Quality of time/content

Family income and resources
Family housing
Parent years of schooling
Mobility
Members of family
Family values
Peer socioeconomic status
Family history

CBM &

Time
Learner
Behavior
Level
Content
Material
Criteria

& IEPs

IEP Goals & O

Time (The amount of time the goa
– “In 30 weeks…”
Learner (The student for whom th
– “..Jose will…”
Behavior (The specific skill the stu
– “…read aloud…”
Level (The grade the content is fro
– “…2nd grade…”
Content (What the student is learn
– “…reading…”
Material (What the student is usin
– “…passages from ORF CBM p
Criteria (The expected level of per
– “..90 words correctly in one mi

Objectives

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progress monitoring material…”
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Goals and O

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same principles
written for 1 year
shorter time fram

Objectives

nd objectives use the
but goals are typically
r and objectives are on a

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ORF Goal

• In one year, Ed
passage from O
material at 90 w
greater than 95

Mazes Goal

• In 30 weeks, De
words on a 4th
CBM progress m
correct in 3 min
accuracy.

oals

dgar will read aloud a 2nd grade
ORF CBM progress monitoring
words correctly in 1 minute with
5% accuracy.

evin will correctly restore missing
grade maze passage from Maze
monitoring material at 20 words
nutes with greater than 95%

Reading Ob

ORF Objective

• In 10 weeks, Edga
passage from OR
material at 50 wor
greater than 95%

Maze Objective

• In 10 weeks, Devin
words on a 4th gra
CBM progress mo
correct in 3 minute
accuracy.

bjectives

ar will read aloud a 2nd grade
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ds correctly in 1 minute, with
accuracy.

n will correctly restore missing
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