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Marah Sutherland; Derek Kosty; Taylor Lesner; Joanna Hermida; Keith Smolkowski; Christian T. Doabler; Ben Clarke – Exceptional Children, 2024
The effectiveness of Tier 2 interventions may depend on the variability of student skills within an intervention group. We investigated the effect of pretest variability within intervention groups using data from a large-scale study of ROOTS, a Tier 2 kindergarten mathematics intervention. Our research questions were as follows: Does mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Young Children
Ben Clarke; Christian T. Doabler; Jessica Turtura; Keith Smolkowski; Evangeline Kurtz-Nelson; Derek Kosty; Hank Fien; Scott K. Baker – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examined the role of initial skill in moderating intervention effects of a 50 lesson mathematics intervention program, ROOTS, for at risk kindergarten students focused on developing whole number concepts and skills. The study utilized a randomized block design with at-risk students (n = 592) within classrooms (n = 60) randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten
Ben Clarke; Christian T. Doabler; Keith Smolkowski; Jessica Turtura; Derek Kosty; Evangeline Kurtz-Nelson; Hank Fien; Scott K. Baker – Exceptional Children, 2019
This study examined the role of initial skill in moderating intervention effects of a 50-lesson mathematics intervention program, ROOTS, for at-risk kindergarten students focused on developing whole-number concepts and skills. The study utilized a randomized block design with at-risk students (n = 592) within classrooms (n = 60) randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten
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Ben Clarke; Christian Doabler; Keith Smolkowski; Evangeline Kurtz Nelson; Hank Fien; Scott K. Baker; Derek Kosty – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study examined the efficacy of a kindergarten mathematics intervention program, ROOTS, focused on developing whole-number understanding in the areas of counting and cardinality and operations and algebraic thinking for students at risk in mathematics. The study utilized a randomized block design with students within classrooms randomly…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Numeracy, Mathematics Education, Intervention