Is your child's IEP goal actually measurable?
Vague goals like “will improve reading skills” can't be tracked — and untracked goals quietly go nowhere. Paste one goal from your child's IEP and get an instant verdict, free, no account, no child data.
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What makes an IEP goal measurable?
Under IDEA, annual IEP goals must be measurable. In practice, a strong goal has four parts:
- Baseline — where your child starts today (“currently reads 40 words per minute”). Without it, nobody can tell if the goal is ambitious or trivial.
- Mastery criterion — exactly what counts as success (“90 wpm with 95% accuracy in 4 of 5 trials”), not “will improve.”
- Measurement method — the named tool or procedure (“weekly DIBELS probes,” “teacher data collection”) that will produce the evidence.
- Timeline — by when (“by the annual review date”).
If a goal is missing these, you can ask the IEP team to rewrite it — you don't have to accept vague goals. Know your rights →
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