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In as much as all students will be in a general education classroom, it would be important to carefully observe the student and capture progress monitoring data. Given the signs of some significant learning problems, it will be important to move the student to more intense tiers of intervention (if there is evidence of non-responsiveness) as quickly as possible to see how he/she responds to altered instructional approaches, configurations, and levels of intensity. This information will be extremely valuable (and necessary) data to have should the student be referred for a comprehensive evaluation.  Knowing how a student responds to the demands of the curriculum under altered instructional configurations will be essential information to have in arriving at any kind of diagnostic hypotheses.