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Evaluating RTI's Effectiveness over the Long Term
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Gibbons, Kimberly – School Administrator, 2008
No matter how one formally define response to intervention (RTI), most definitions contain common components: scientific, research-based instruction; the use of learning rate and level as the basis for determining effectiveness of intervention; and decisions about intensity and duration of interventions based on a student's response to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, Earth Science, Evaluation Methods
Selecting Effective Academic Interventions: An Example Using Brief Experimental Analysis for Oral Reading
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Wilber, Amy; Cushman, Thomas P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
The reauthorization of IDEA (the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004) includes potential use of a response to intervention (RTI) model for the identification of learning disabilities. Using this model, a variety of academic interventions may be implemented with a low-achieving student, with the results monitored to…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Identification, Oral Reading, Learning Disabilities
The Effect of Active Student Responding during Computer-Assisted Instruction on Social Studies Learning by Students with Learning Disabilities
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Jerome, Annamaria; Barbetta, Patricia M. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2005
An alternating treatments design with a best treatments phase was used to compare two active student response (ASR) conditions and one on-task (OT) condition on the acquisition and maintenance of social studies facts during computer-assisted instruction. Each week for six weeks, five students were provided daily computer-assisted instruction on 21…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Social Studies, Learning Disabilities
Ten Ways to Enhance the Effectiveness of Repeated Readings
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Alber-Morgan, Sheila R. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
Many students struggle academically because of their persistent reading problems. Active student responding is a practice that has been demonstrated to improve student achievement with a variety of important skills, including reading. One form of active student responding effective for increasing reading performance is repeated readings. When…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Difficulties, Student Participation, Student Reaction
An Instructional-Based Model for Assessing Learning Disabilities.
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Humphries, Thomas W.; Wilson, Anne Keeton – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1986
Overreliance on test-based assessment of learning disabilities can produce diagnostic results of questionable validity and prove stigmatizing for the child. An instructional-based model focuses on evaluation of the child's response to teaching. Observation and analysis of the student's reaction yeilds results that are more readily translatable…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching
We Teach All.
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Ruder, Suzy – Educational Leadership, 2000
With strong administrative and parental support, Hinsdale (Illinois) Central High School successfully launched an inclusive (and heterogeneous-grouping) policy with five special-needs ninth graders in fall 1995; eight others took some regular courses while remaining in their traditional special-education program. (MLH)
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities