Week 6: Intro to MTSS Flashcards
(31 cards)
Consequences of the Test and Place model of School Psychology:
Binary placement decisions
Serious limitations with profiling based on intelligence pattern scores
Low treatment utility of broadband cognitive assessments
Matthew’ effect
Focus on summative data
Disparities by race and ethnicity
It is impossible to differentiate between mild disabilities, low achievers and poor instruction (T/F)
True
Why MTSS?
MTSS differentiates between “true LD” and “garden variety” low achievement by applying a graduated sequence of interventions of increasing intensity
Implications of MTSS
Evaluation becomes
intervention focused
EBP influences intervention, not just evaluation
Good instruction becomes the focus, not an afterthought
Population focused
Greater emphasis on implementation science and coordinated teaming structures
Who can use MTSS?
IDEA (2004) contains explicit revisions allowing and encouraging a RTI model to be used to inform treatment
RTI/MTSS Dimensions
Multitiered Implementation
Student Assessment and Decision Making
EBP Provision
Procedural Integrity
Sustainability and Scale-Up of Systems Model
Multi-Tiered Implementation
Traditional model uses binary system for resource allocation. In MTSS, additive services are differentiated based on student need with special ed and regular ed working together
Primary distinguishing features between tiers
Scope and intensity of instruction/assessment
Tier One example
Screening for all students - used to determine class-wide support
Tier 2 example
Students at risk are administered evidence based supplemental instruction in small groups w/ progress monitoring weekly/bi-weekly. Responsiveness determines placement.
Tier 3 example
Students who have been unresponsive to at least one evidence-based intervention. Pullout/different setting, smaller group/individualized, more standardized curriculum. Progress monitoring may increase in frequency and specificity
Disability definition under MTSS
Disability is defined as non-responsiveness to something that typically works
Purpose of MTSS
Identify minimally intensive environment to evoke responsiveness
MTSS shifts evaluation from cognitively based to _______
behavioral/environmental based
Assessment under MTSS is high inference, typically resulting in classification/diagnosis (T/F)
F
Two meanings of diagnostic in MTSS
Official diagnosis/classification
Identification of specific subskills/masteries that a student does not know
Decisions to place into Tier II/Tier III can be made using these two paradigms
A public health model
A behavioral health model
Public health model
Place in response to interention
Behavioral health model
Place in response to screening performance
Is a behavioral health or public health model more efficient?
Behavioral health model
“Wait to fail”
A criticism of public health approach to MTSS alluding to the requirement in a public health model to place students in response to intervention rather than screening
The EB Principle
Assumption under MTSS that interventions used have been shown to be effective, allowing determination based on responsiveness
An intervention is evidence based if
The intervention has an explicit implementation procedure
The intervention has been shown to have efficacy and effectiveness within a sequence of experimental studies
The outcome is meaningful
The intervention can be practically implemented
Procedural integrity is a major cause of intervention failures (T/F)
T
