Essentials of Response to Intervention

Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, Matthew K. Burns

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780470566633
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780470599778
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to accurately and effectively implement Response to Intervention (RTI) programs

As adoption of the RTI model grows, professionals such as educational diagnosticians, school psychologists, general and special education teachers, and school administrators are eager to find resources that describe the theory behind it and provide useful guidelines for its effective implementation. Packaged in the user-friendly Essentials series format, and authored by two RTI experts, Essentials of Response to Intervention provides just that resource. This book offers a concise overview of the features of RTI, instruction for its implementation, and post-implementation guidelines for assessing whether a program has been effective.

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health practitioners, and those in training, quickly acquire the psychoeducational assessment knowledge and skills they need. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you to gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

Complete with a Foreword by Jim Ysseldyke, Essentials of Response to Intervention offers rich and up-to-date information on obtaining meaningful data for decision making, evaluation of the research base for RTI, and clinical applications of RTI.

Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series:

Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment, Second Edition

Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Second Edition

Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

Essentials of WJ IIITM Cognitive Abilities Assessment

Essentials of WJ IIITM Tests of Achievement Assessment

Essentials of WIAT-III and KTEA-II Assessment

Essentials of Processing Assessment

Essentials of Assessment Report Writing

Index

A

Academic performance assessment

Adoption of RtI

African American students

Aimlines

Assessment

brief experimental analysis (BEA)

data. See Assessment data

defined

functional and developmental status

and RtI

Assessment data. See also Tier 1 instruction

as component of RtI

and decision making

and incentives, use of

scope of

and Tier 3 intervention

use of

Attention deficit disorder

B

Base rate occurrences

and conditional probabilities

effect of, underestimating

and predictive power

and prevalence rates

and setting cut points

teacher referrals of African Americans

Bayes’ theorem

Behavioral difficulties

Behavioral psychology

Benchmark criterion

and calculating slopes of growth

for reading measures

and screening decisions

Brain development

Brief experimental analyses (BEAs)

C

Case examples

class-wide intervention for mathematics

problem-solving team, implementation integrity

Tier 2 intervention

Tier 3 intervention

Causal factors

Center on Teaching and Learning (University of Oregon). See also Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Data System

Class-wide interventions

case example, intervention for mathematics

and class-wide learning problems. See also Class-wide learning problems

effectiveness of

need for

as problem solution

remedial

and system change

Tier 1 instruction

Tier 2 intervention

Class-wide learning problems

case example, mathematics

causes of

and data interpretation

identifying, importance of

instructional-level criteria, use of to determine existence of problem

and local norms. See also Local norms

and Tier 1 instruction

and universal screening. See also Universal screening

Classical test theory

Classification accuracy analysis

Classification agreement analyses

decision rules. See also Decision rules and cut points

intervention strategy

negative predictive power

positive predictive power

sensitivity and specificity

use of

Classification analyses

classification agreements

conditional probabilities

as means of quantifying decision making accuracy

procedure for

Clinical applications of RtI

and disproportionate identification by ethnicity, gender, and poverty status

low achievement

and overidentification rates

overview

questions on

specific learning disabilities, identification of

system level problems, identification of

Cognitive psychology

Communicative status assessment

Comprehensive evaluation for SLD

Conditional probabilities

Coordinated action

Core instruction. See also Tier 1 instruction

as basis for interventions

as component of RtI

and prevention of SLD

and screening. See also Universal screening

Criterion-referenced decision rules

Cross-cohort comparisons

Cultural bias

Curriculum-based assessment for instructional design

Curriculum-based evaluation (CBE)

Curriculum-based measurement (CBM)

and criterion-referenced approach to data interpretation

data collection and effectiveness of interventions

and dual discrepancy models

and early implementation models

and local no...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• SERIES PREFACE
• VOLUME PREFACE
• One - OVERVIEW OF RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION
• Two - HOW TO IMPLEMENT RTI
• Three - HOW TO OBTAIN MEANINGFUL DATA FOR DECISION MAKING: RETHINKING TECHNICAL ADEQUACY
• Four - HOW TO INTERPRET RTI DATA
• Five - EVALUATING THE RESEARCH BASE FOR RTI
• Six - CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF RTI
• Seven - CASE REPORT ILLUSTRATIONS
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E - MONITORING TIER 2 INTERVENTION
• Appendix F - Screening Integrity Protocol
• AUTHORS’ NOTE
• REFERENCES
• Annotated Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors