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Project Study: An Action Plan For Implementing Response To Intervention, Leah W. Hamilton
Project Study: An Action Plan For Implementing Response To Intervention, Leah W. Hamilton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 allows schools to utilize response to intervention (RtI) as early intervention to prevent at-risk students from becoming labeled as learning disabled. Using action research methodology and school change theory, the purpose of this project study was to determine the RtI implementation needs of a rural elementary school (LE). The guiding research question was to identify the components of an RtI framework currently being utilized during the pre-referral process at LE. This study employed a qualitative method triangulation design to analyze data from key stakeholders including questionnaires; individual interviews from six reading …