Innovative IEP Goal Creation: Equipping Special and General Educators

During Phase I in 2018, the project team developed a prototype of EdMod, including the user interface for entering data, an information management system for housing data, and the reporting engine for organizing and presenting information. At the end of Phase I, a pilot study included six middle school special education teachers. Results demonstrated that the new prototype functioned as planned, and teachers were able to successfully enter IEP goals and identify the instructional practices for addressing goals. Each of the teachers agreed that the prototype served as a valuable resource for managing and adjusting practices based on the information. In Phase II, the team will fully develop the architecture to host and integrate diverse sources of IEP data with larger management platforms that schools already use, a filter to sort and analyze data, a recommendation portal to identify and select evidence based practices, and enhancements for how administrators provide permissions.