That is how everything is written right now. [Edit to add that I'd love to move to having more than just how it works for us spelled out. Can we find out what SEL assessments are used by other customers planning to use our MTSS product? And then I can also spell out how it would work for those SEL assessments.] Here is an example from the document that really spells out how our recommendations for tiers work:
Wellness
Similar to the logic behind the cutpoints for academic assessments RethinkEd wants to leverage the work of the makers of wellness assessments (sometimes referred to as social-emotional learning assessments) when determining the level of support students need. For wellness assessments that provide category scores like RethinkEd does, the recommended tiers will be based on them. Typically for assessments that provide category scores, the scoring reflects how well students are faring on wellness compared to peers. For example, RethinkEd’s wellness measures has scores of 1 to 5 that reflect percentiles according to grade level bands (e.g., grades 3 through 5, grades 6 through 8). A score of 1 corresponds to the 10th percentile and lower (labeled as “very low”), and a score of 2 corresponds to the 11th to 30th percentile (labeled as “low”; ERB 2019). Such approaches to scoring provide strong indication of how to recommend students for tiers.
Although some wellness assessment makers have scores offering comparisons that group students according to their ages or grade levels, many do not, opting instead to compare all students to each other regardless of their age or grade level. We therefore use more general language when explaining our approach to recommending tiers below, omitting references to grade-level performance, than we do when explaining the cutpoints for academic assessments. A general guide to how we determine tier recommendations is:
Tier 3: category score indicating that the student is much lower than averageTier 2: category score indicating that the student is lower than averageTier 1: category score indicating the student is about average or above average
To make this general guide more concrete, the Table 2 below gives the mapping of RethinkEd score bands to recommended tiers.
Table 2. Mapping of RethinkEd Wellness Scores to Recommended Tiers for MTSS
Numeric 1 to 5 band for RethinkEd Wellness assessment
Corresponding percentile compared to grade-level peers for RethinkEd Wellness assessment
Descriptive label for RethinkEd Wellness assessment
Tier 3 (much lower than average)
1
0 - 10
Very low
Tier 2 (lower than average)
2
11 - 30
Low
Tier 1 (about average or above average)
34531 - 7071 – 9091 - 99AverageHighVery high
[1:47 PM] Tara Chiatovich
What I'm unclear on right now is how I'm taking the above and making it into instructions for DEV just because all of my instructions so far are written in such a way as to spell out:
How we expect to identify tiers for the general case (which I can create based on the above).
How to identify tiers for Belleville specifically (which we don't have here).
Let me know if I should just focus on writing out the general case in similar language as I did for the other instructions for tiers that are being incorporated into the specs! Happy to try to get that done by EOD today!