Title: Completing Your Masters Degree
1Overview of RTI Masters Project
Department of Special Education Portland State
University
2RTI Masters Project
- Overview of RTI Project
- Selecting an area of interest
- Sample data from practice
- Next steps
3Overview RTI Reading
- Work with Dr. Amanda Sanford and Dr. Julie
Esparza Brown - Target students with reading IEPs and English
Learners in the Response to Intervention (RTI)
framework - Assess and diagnos students instructional needs
- Develop and implement a targeted reading support
plan - Develop expertise as RTI team leader
4Overview RTI Masters Project
- Courses offered in winter and spring, with an
option to begin lit review in summer or fall - Select from the team options provided or
brainstorm with a team about additional options - Early in the process (winter term or before), you
will complete an IRB application, literature
review, and write the method of the project with
team - During winter and spring terms you will collect
your data, analyze the data, and write up the
results with your team
5Selecting an area of interest
- RTI Els (in collaboration with Dr. Brown)
- RTI tech tools (in collaboration with Dr.
Sennott)
- Conduct literature review on what works for RTI
with English learners - Design and implement a single subject research
study with your team - Multiple Baseline
- Alternating Treatment
- Reversal
- Implement the intervention with your students and
measure outcome
- Conduct literature review on effective
instructional design principles for content area - Create a tool to evaluate the presence of
effective instructional design principles - Identify technology tools, family resources,
student resources and evaluate them for the
presence of design elements
6Sample data from practice
- Research questions
- Literature review
- Participants in school intervention
- School based intervention design results
- Limitations
- Next steps
7Research questions
- Can PLUSS instructional adaptations be
implemented in a typical school setting? - What are the effects of adding the PLUSS
instructional modifications to an evidence-based
reading intervention for English learners who are
identified as needing additional support in
reading on reading
8Literature review
- English Learners (ELs) in public schools rose
from 4.7 to 11.2 million between 1980 and 2009
(NCES, 2011) - Significant gap between performance on ELs and
non-El students in reading (NAEP, 2010) - 4th grade 36 point gap
- 8th grade 47 point gap
- 12th grade 50 point gap
9Literature review
- ELs face dual cognitive load of learning language
and content (Goldenburg, 2008) - Currently we have
- interventions for ELs (SIOP, SDAIE) in general
education - Research based interventions for students
struggling in reading - There is a gap in research to practice in
systematically applying what works for ELs who
also have disabilities or struggle with reading
10Literature review
- PLUSS is a model designed to overlay research
based interventions to address the unique
instructional needs of ELs (Sanford, Brown, and
Turner, 2013) - PLUSS stands for
- Pre-teaching language, vocabulary, and priming
background knowledge - Language use and modeling
- Using visuals and graphic organizers
- Systematic and Explicit instruction
- Strategic use of native language and teaching for
transfer
11Participants from intervention
- Permission from parents granted to use this
information for educational purposes (but not
research purposes at this point) - Utilized a single subject reversal design
- 2 students who were English Learners and also
needed additional support in reading - Rosa 2nd grade, 7 year old female who spoke
Spanish, English, and Mandarin - Dorotea 3rd grade, 8 year old female who spoke
Spanish, English, and Mandarin
12Results of school-based intervention
Rosa
Research based intervention
Research based intervention
Research based intervention including PLUSS
13Results of school-based intervention
Rosa
Research based intervention including PLUSS
Research based intervention including PLUSS
Research based intervention
Research based intervention
14Results of school-based intervention
Dorotea
Research based intervention including PLUSS
Research based intervention
Research based intervention
15Results of school-based intervention
Dorotea
Research based intervention including PLUSS
Research based intervention including PLUSS
Research based intervention
Research based intervention
Words Read Correctly per Minute
Percent Accuracy
Errors
16Limitations
- Conducting a more rigorous research study may
allow data to be published and used to inform the
field - The following would strengthen study and
conclusions that could be drawn - More data points in each phase
- Fidelity measure that involve an independent
observer - Independence of participants so intervention
could be adjusted based on unique individual
needs - Interobserver agreement procedure
17Next steps
- This study could be strengthened with YOUR help!
- Notify me of your interest in either research
study - Begin literature review including readings on one
of the following - ELs
- Effective instruction for English Learners
- Single subject research design
- OR
- Tech tools and resources and effective
instructional design princples
18RTI Masters Project Next Steps
- Identify area of interest in the project
- Communicate with me your area of interest and I
can provide some support in guiding your
literature review - Conduct a literature review as part of your 596
coursework - Connect with me or Dr. Loman with any questions
(asanford_at_pdx.edu)
19Remember You Need to Choose and Apply to Join a
Masters Project Group
- The SPED 597 course and the SPED 506 course are
taught by same faculty member focused on a topic
and project.
20How to Apply for These Projects
- Complete application describing your
- Project preference and interest
- Qualifications and skills
- Current occupation and access to schools
- Register for and take SPED 596 Research in
Special Education (3 cr) in Summer 2014 Session
1 (81269) or Session 2 (81270)
21Technology and Education
- You can serve individuals with a diverse set of
disabilities autism, communication disorders,
physical disabilities, learning disabilities - You will combine new technology and effective
practice to create positive results - Discover important principles of technology
integration
Dr. Samuel Sennott