Donna Gilbertson

TL;DR: Effect of the RTI model on number of evaluations conducted, percentage of evaluated children who qualified for services, and proportion of identified children by sex and ethnicity before and after implementation of the model was examined.

TL;DR: The authors conducted an exploratory survey designed to assess teachers' perceptions of various measures of written expression and found that teachers accept the measures for this sample of 335 teachers from several locations throughout the United States, the relationship of the measures to demographics, and directions for future research are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined an approach for assessing and intervening with academic concerns that is conceptually derived from the distinction between skill deficits and performance deficits. And they compared an instructional intervention to one emphasizing motivational variables.

TL;DR: This article examined general education teachers' implementation of a peer tutoring intervention for five elementary students referred for consultation and intervention due to academic concerns and found that intervention implementation by four teachers was consistently low or exhibited a downward trend whereas one teacher's moderate implementation co-occurred with student gains.