Nathaniel von der Embse

The primary purpose of this project is to develop and validate a social, emotional, and behavioral risk screener for early childhood. The assessment will be an online and application-based universal screening system available in both English and Spanish. There is a clear need to provide early intervention services to all children to support social-emotional and academic development. This can best be accomplished through the use of efficient screening systems to identify social-emotional need...

The purpose of this project is to develop and validate a multi-informant decisional assessment system (MIDAS) to integrate and use multiple sources of data for accurate and efficient identification of social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) concerns in middle school students. Universal screening for SEB concerns is promising to facilitate early identification and implementation of evidence-based interventions but schools are not able to integrate such information from different informants who ...

The purpose of this project was to support the development and validation of the Intervention Selection Profile (ISP), a suite of brief assessment tools to identify appropriate interventions for students in need of Tier 2 support. In a response to intervention (RTI) framework, Tier 2 interventions are for students who are struggling to make adequate progress in response to general classroom-level (Tier 1) instruction and supports. A large body of research has supported the effectiveness of s...