Course Description
Students will learn how to conduct assessments of individual student’s academic strengths and weaknesses using direct assessments and problem solving procedures, evaluate the quality of instruction being provided to a student, develop interventions through data based decision making procedures, and assess students’ academic growth.
Athena Title
INDIV-ACAD-INTERV
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
• Develop an understanding of the differences, similarities, strengths and weaknesses of the various models for identifying students with learning disabilities. • Develop an understanding of the strengths and weakness of fluency based intervention and assessment procedures. • Develop an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of criterion reference, norm-references, and curriculum-based assessment procedures. • Develop proficiency in the administration and interpretation of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) data. • Gain an understanding of conducting assessments that lead to the development of skills-based interventions. • Gain an understanding of implementing the components that make up effective skill-based academic interventions. • Gain an understanding of the interaction between students behavioral and academic skill needs. • Gain an understanding of the importance of evaluating treatment intervention integrity and the role it plays in evaluating student progress. • Learn how to develop interventions that are inherently designed to promote and monitor the integrity with which teachers implement interventions.
Topical Outline
• Criterion referenced measures • Norm-referenced measures • Curriculum-based assessment in reading, math, and writing • Curriculum-based measurement in reading, math, and writing • Haring and Eaton’s instructional hierarchy • The role of fluency assessment and fluency interventions in developing academic skills • Response to intervention under Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act 2004 • Interventions for developing reading fluency • Strategy instruction in reading • Strategy instruction in writing • Direct/explicit instruction • Interventions for basic math fact fluency • Interventions to develop math problem skills • Teacher treatment integrity research
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