Learning from monitoring progress should be used to what?

• A. Succeed at improving instruction
• B. Evaluate
• C. Modify
• D. Secure

Answer: (C)

Progress monitoring creates feedback about how students are learning, and the most effective use of that feedback is to change or adapt instruction. When data show students struggling with a concept, the teacher can adjust lessons, reteach with different methods, offer extra supports, or regroup students to target gaps. That action—modifying how instruction is delivered based on what the data reveal—is what helps students make progress most reliably.

While evaluating progress and ensuring students are moving forward are important, the direct next step guided by monitoring data is to modify instruction to better meet needs. Securing resources or outcomes isn’t the immediate instructional use of this data.