Multi-Tiered Systems of Support On-Line Course: Session 3

Session 3. The MTSS Data-based Problem-Solving Process Focusing on Assessment to Get to Intervention Part II [3 hours, 10 minutes]

Contents and Brief Description

MTSS Review of Part I
Review of the MTSS Data-based, Problem-Solving, Consultation, Intervention Process
Generating Hypotheses to Explain Students’ Academic and/or Social, Emotional, & Behavioral Challenges
Functional Assessment Questions to Facilitate Hypothesis Generation
Generating Predictions to Confirm or Reject Hypotheses
Multi-tiered Interventions
Developing and Evaluating Intervention Plans and Planning

This Session continues the discussion of the step-by-step data-based problem-solving process needed to identify the root causes of students’ academic or social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. In this Session, the Problem Analysis step is completed, and we show how to link the results of the root cause analysis to specific strategic or intensive services, supports, strategies, or interventions.

During the presentation, the six ecological components that help to organize the root cause analysis and the hypotheses to explain students’ academic or social, emotional, or behavioral challenges are detailed, as are the “Seven High-Hit Reasons” why students present with these challenges. These Seven High-Hit Reasons frame out a “21^st Century Functional Assessment” process, and they are specifically linked, once again, to evidence- or research-based interventions.

Ways to assessment identified hypotheses are described in detail, along with the characteristics of effective Intervention Implementation and Formative and Summative Evaluation.

The Case Study begun in Session 2—of the high school student with numerous academic and behavioral challenges—is continues to be used to demonstrate the remainder of the step-by-step problem-solving process.

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