Project Activities
The researchers will replicate and extend the findings from the prior study by conducting a randomized wait-list controlled trial with SWPBIS data teams from 72 schools across California, Georgia, and the Northeast. The study will include an analysis of main outcomes, implementation study, and the cost effectiveness analysis and dissemination to a variety of audiences including scholars and practitioners.
Structured Abstract
Setting
The project will take place in elementary schools from California, Georgia, and the Northeast region.
Sample
The researchers will recruit elementary schoolwide PBIS (SWPBIS) data teams who are trained on PBIS, who are using School-wide Information System (SWIS), and who have not yet been trained on TIPS. The targeted sample includes educators serving on SWPBIS data teams who are using schoolwide data like office discipline referrals to problem solve and identify action plans to improve student outcomes.
The intervention of this project is the TIPS professional development (PD) plus coaching. The TIPS PD component consists of 2 days of training sessions. Day 1 targets local district/school coaches for supporting SWPBIS data teams in their use of the TIPS process. Day 2 helps SWPBIS data teams and their coaches learn the TIPS evidence-based meeting foundations. After the 2-day training, the teams will meet monthly. The local district/school coaches will attend the first 2 monthly meetings to offer guidance and coaching.
Research design and methods
Using an randomized control trial (RCT), the researchers will employ an experimental randomized wait-list controlled trial design with 72 Tier 1 SWPBIS data teams from schools in California, the Northeast, and Georgia, replicating the original TIPS efficacy study. This project can be considered a closely aligned post-hoc conceptual effectiveness replication.
Control condition
The control condition will be business as usual SWPBIS data teams that receive neither the TIPS PD nor the coaching.
Key measures
Measures of proximal outcomes include the Decision Observation, Recording, and Analysis (DORA) and the Team Functioning Scale (TFS). Implementation measures include Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI), the TIPS Fidelity Checklist (TIPS FC), and the Technical Assistance Checklist. Distal measures of student outcomes include number and rates of office discipline referrals per 100 students and proportion of students meeting grade level academic criteria on state assessments.
Data analytic strategy
The researchers will use direct observation data from the RCT to determine the level of replication of the original TIPS efficacy trial. The researchers will design the analyses around four goals that will (1) use results from original efficacy study to infer the existence of a replication effect, (2) precisely estimate the replication study effect sizes, (3) combine replication sample data with original data to estimate average effect sizes, and (4) assess whether the replication is clearly consistent with the original study.
Cost analysis strategy
The researchers will conduct a cost analysis and cost effectiveness study using the ingredients methods across multiple years of the TIPS replication project.
People and institutions involved
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Products and publications
The products of this project will include evidence about the replication of efficacy of the use of the TIPS training, coaching, and meeting minute protocols. The researchers will produce published articles, reports, social media content, and presentations for scholarly and practitioner stakeholders.
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