Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Progress Monitoring for Preschool Teachers

To support special educators in effectively implementing research-based instruction to learners with disabilities, professional development must be effective and feasible. To ensure the feasibility of effective professional development models, considerations of costs required to implement such models are essential. Therefore, we undertook a cost analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis of an asynchronous online training intended for teachers serving children with disabilities and individualized needs. We have shared materials for consumers to allow for the replication of our methods and results (https://osf.io/krbzc/). These materials cover various contemporary methods of economic evaluation in education, including the handling missing data and Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the robustness of findings. Implications are discussed with regard to future considerations surrounding cost and cost-effectiveness analyses in special education.