The present paper describes a noncomputerized system for collection, storage, and analysis of student performance data in an early childhood special education program. Formative evaluation data for 12 students during one school quarter indicate that 719 data-based decisions were made, resulting in reteaching (69%), moving ahead (25%), or branching (6%) within cumulative skill programs. Additional descriptive data are reported that reflect distribution of programs by curricular area, numbers of programs and units, types of branch decisions, and types of branches by curricular area.
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