UMass Boston

School-Based Interventions & Data-Based Decision Making

Course #: SPY G 607, Class #: 1498, Section #: 01

Description

Attention is focused on the techniques of synthesizing educational, child development, and psychological information into effective prevention programs as well as individual and group interventions for students at-risk for special education and with disabilities. The course uses a problem solving approach and the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the evidence-based practice movement to facilitate student development, monitoring, and evaluation of effective academic, social, emotional, and behavioral intervention strategies with emphasis on direct and indirect evidence-based interventions. The course will also emphasize data-based decision making pertaining to matching treatments to reasons for problems students are experiencing, progress monitoring, as well as determining student responses to intervention.

Prerequisites

SPY G 602 and 604 and COUNSL 614