Florida's Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network

Florida’s s Progress Monitoring and
Reporting Network
Dr. Joseph K. Torgesen
FSU and Florida Center for Reading Research
DIBELS Users Conference, March, 2004

What is the Progress Monitoring and Reporting
Network (PMRN)
1. Statewide, web-based system for reporting
progress monitoring and outcome assessments for
grades K-3
2. A secure, password protected system with multiple
levels of access: classroom, school, district, region,
state
3. Students are tracked by student ID number, so it
follows children longitudinally and when they
change schools

Some important capabilities of the PMRN
1. Automatically prepares class rosters for data entry
based on data uploaded from district data base
2. Provides several different kinds of static and
progress reports for teachers
3. Allows parent reports to be automatically printed in
both English and Spanish
4. Allows Principals to have access to data on all
students and classrooms in their school
5. Provides data disaggregated by student
demographics at the school, district, region, and
state levels

Some important capabilities of the PMRN
(cont)
6. Allows teacher’s s and principals to compare the
progress of their students against similar students
in other schools
7. Selects students for reliability assessments, and
calculates and reports reliability of assessment
8. Allows reading reading coaches to make bi-weekly
reports and provides summary reports of their
activities
9. Provides formatted reports of all data in the system
for local use at the school and district level

Resources required for development and
maintenance
1. Developed in cooperation with local software
developer – costs to date, approximately $600,000
2. Took one year to design, program, test, and
implement
3. Hardware: Sun System servers: Oracle Data base
4. Staff: Director of Technical Projects, Assistant, 4
help desk employees

www.fcrr.org/pmrn/userguides.htm

Students sorted alphabetically by name

Students sorted by raw score at last
assessment

Teacher
names
School Status
Report-
Teacher
names
Gives
overview for
principal of
all classes

90% rule – reports not available until 90% of data is in

That’s s all for now…
Questions and Discussion?