The eServe Initiative: An Empirically Supported, Web-based Educational Decision Making Product

Phase I Project

In this project, researchers iteratively developed and studied an intervention for kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers and administrators that aimed to reduce exclusionary disciplinary referrals that often result in students with significant behavior problems losing access to classroom instruction, resulting in a higher risk for academic failure. The intervention assisted educators to identify appropriate individualized and group instructional and behavioral interventions for students using a web-based tool that managed student data, recognized patterns, established pre-defined decision-making rules, sent notifications, and provided best-practice behavioral management strategies to teachers.