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
Individual Academic Interven
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of the differences, similarities, strengths, and weaknesses of the various models for identifying students with learning disabilities.
Students will develop an understanding of the strengths and weakness of fluency-based intervention and assessment procedures.
Students will develop an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of criterion reference, norm-references, and curriculum-based assessment procedures.
Students will develop proficiency in the administration and interpretation of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) data.
Students will gain an understanding of conducting assessments that lead to the development of skills-based interventions.
Students will gain an understanding of implementing the components that make up effective skill-based academic interventions.
Students will gain an understanding of the interaction between students behavioral and academic skill needs.
Students will gain an understanding of the importance of evaluating treatment intervention integrity and the role it plays in evaluating student progress.
Students will 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
