Problem Solving/Response to Intervention Evaluation Tool Technical Assistance Manual - Revised

Abstract

Publication of the first iteration of this manual occurred during the Summer of 2010.Subsequently, the context in which educational stakeholders are implementing Problem Solving/Response to Intervention (PS/RtI) has changed (e.g., language used, federal and state policies, funding issues, advances in the field).Research further investigating the technical adequacy of several instruments contained within this manual has been conducted as well.Therefore, we have updated the manual to provide the most up-to-date information available regarding the technical adequacy of Project instrumentation and the context within which they should be used.Updates to the manual occurred primarily in four sections; the Introduction and chapters addressing the Beliefs on RtI Survey (formally called the Beliefs Survey), Perceptions of RtI Skills Survey, and the Coaching Evaluation Survey.We updated the Introduction to include more contemporary information on PS/RtI, systems change, and the variables measured by Project instrumentation.Changes to the chapters covering each of the three aforementioned instruments involved updating literature on the rationale for using the tool, additional data on its technical adequacy, and updating school-and district-level exemplars to reflect changes in the tools that resulted from psychometric analyses.Further analysis of their technical adequacy resulted in the elimination of several items from each instrument.Therefore, copies of the instruments that reflect the new item sets also are included.