Rhonda Nese

The purpose of this development and innovation project was to refine and test a Tier 1 universal intervention to reduce exclusionary discipline and increase instructional time for students, the Inclusive Skill-building Learning Approach (ISLA). ISLA promotes positive student-teacher relationships and students' problem-solving skills and school-wide systems that specify graduated and logical responses to concerning behavior to reduce the likelihood that students will be sent out of class.

The research team will develop and validate an automated scoring system to measure, unite, and scale the rate, accuracy, and prosody of oral reading fluency (ORF) for students in grades 2 to 4. Research has shown that prosody explains variance in reading comprehension beyond rate and accuracy; however, current ORF assessments neglect the measurement of prosody. This project can increase the reliability and validity of decisions made from ORF scores, resulting in better identification of stud...

The purpose of this study is to develop the Team Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) EdTech suite of tools, which includes TIPS Online Training and TIPS Meeting Application (TIPS MApp), and test their promise for improving the efficiency and impact of school teams' data-based decision making. There is rapid growth in the amount of data available to school teams, but many school teams are not effective in their use of data to support students. Although there is evidence of efficacy for the TIPS ...