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2018

Elementary Education

Theses/Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations

Espoused Beliefs versus Theories in Use

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Helping Children Overcome Reading Difficulties Using Response To Intervention, Corinne M. Sannino Dec 2018

Helping Children Overcome Reading Difficulties Using Response To Intervention, Corinne M. Sannino

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine if Argryis and Schon's (1974) Theory-of-Action framework could be used as a viable professional development tool to improve teachers' professional practices when providing Tier II literacy interventions within the context of a Response to Intervention (RTI) program in an elementary school. This multicase study sought to understand more deeply the espoused beliefs and theories-in-use of four elementary literacy interventionists' when delivering intensive literacy interventions to students not reading on grade level within the context of the RTI program by using semi-structured interviews, collection of student work, and classroom observations. Discrepancies were …