CPM: When administering the assessment, can I tell the student if they are correct or incorrect?

Answer

During the actual assessment, avoid indicating how the student is scoring, as this may influence their performance and skew the results.

Below are the Circle Progress Monitoring (CPM) General Administration Guidelines from the user guide that address your question.

You can find the user guide here: CPM User Guide

Praise effort, not success. A child should not be able to tell if he or she got an item correct or incorrect. Some examples are: “You are working hard.” “You are doing a great job paying attention.” “I am proud of your hard work.” “You’re behaving so nicely.” “Good listening.” “I’m having fun playing these games with you.” “You’re paying attention so well.” “I can tell you’re working hard.”

Do not offer hints or potential strategies to children or give praise that indicates how the child is doing/scoring. For example: DO NOT say: “Good.” “Great.” “Right.” “Uh-huh.” “You’re so smart.” Do not get in the habit of repeatedly saying “okay/bien” between items. Do not use facial expressions that reveal how the child is doing. Do not give high fives during a measure/between items. Do not give hints (i.e. nodding, clapping, tapping, yes/no responses) when administering the assessment. Do not try to give additional information (i.e. we covered this last week, this letter makes this sound, this number comes after).