Let's Go Learn's DORA, ADAM, & DOMA assessments are thorough diagnostic assessments. Therefore, by design, they should not be given frequently. They are, however, meant to be given between 3-4 times per year in order to see growth across a wide range of skills. Typically customers will test three to four times a year: fall, winter, and spring. But, if students have been working intensely and a teacher wanted to re-test, he or she could do so after eight weeks.
Progress Monitoring, by definition, is meant to monitor discrete skill gains based on a student's specific learning gaps post instruction. A diagnostic is broad, and often captures skills that student have, in fact, mastered. Progress Monitioring would be done for isolated skills. For example, the ADAM diagnostic is composed of five larger strands that have numerous subskills. The data from that diagnositc reveals smaller subskill areas of weakness that should be targeted through direct instruction and Edge lessons. The teacher would then give a formative assessment on the specific skill in order to measure growth (i.e., progress monitor). It is also possible to queue up one strand at a time.
Finally, if a school is using LGL Edge, after the completion of each lesson, a score is recorded. This score provides real-time, day-to-day and minute-by-minute progress monitoring. Teachers will see the lesson name, for instance "Decimal Place Value," and then a percentage score that the student received while doing the lesson.