Data Mine-ing

In a sort of spinoff of yesterday's post and my offering to the Tracking Gods, here's the real live numbers from my before school intervention program.

BSP Intervention Data For Naming and Action Verbs

Kid	Pre	%	Post	%	Change
Mi	4	80%	10	100%	20%
Ni	5	100%	9	90%	-10%
Dr	5	100%	10	100%	0%
Eg	4	80%	10	100%	20%
Ma	3	60%	9	90%	30%
Vi	3	60%	7	70%	10%
Ha	5	100%	9	90%	-10%
Ja	3	60%	5	50%	-10%
Mi	5	100%	10	100%	0%
Ma	4	80%	10	100%	20%
Tr	2	40%	7	70%	30%
Dr	5	100%	10	100%	0%
Co	2	40%	8	80%	40%
Ka	2	40%	9	90%	50%
Al	5	100%	10	100%	0%
Ca	4	80%	10	100%	20%
Fe	4	80%	10	100%	20%
Averages	4	76%	9	90%	14%

So, what can I learn from all this?

• Three kids didn't grow at all, but that's deceptive because they were already at 100%. Two of the three kids who had a score drop went from 100% to 90%, which isn't a big deal.
  
• Some of the gains are pretty good, Ka and Co especially. I think I can reasonably say that the intervention worked for them.
  
• Little Ja, on the other hand, was below standard (we set it at 70%) before we began, and he actually dropped down to 60% after the two weeks of intervention.

Under the RTI framework Ja would move on to the next level of intervention, but here's the trick: we don't have one. I don't have the para time to be able to reteach it, and I'm certainly not going to initiate a sped referral based on trouble with naming and action words. This is a subject area that I should let go begging because of the time and manpower issues, but then I'm conceding defeat, and that doesn't feel right either.

At what point do you let go, say "He doesn't get it right now!", and hope for the best?