Response to Intervention

Overview

Influence: Response to Intervention
Domain: Teaching Strategies
Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
Influence Definition: Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. The RTI process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom (Tier 1). Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning. Those not making progress are then provided with increasingly intensive instruction usually in small groups (Tier 2). If still no progress, then students receive individualized, intensive interventions that target the students' skill deficits (Tier 3).

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 8
Number of studies: 180
Number of students: 11,231
Number of effects: 689
Weighted mean effect size: 0.73
Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Journal of Learning Disabilities	Tran, Sanchez, Arellano & Swanson	Belgium	A Meta-Analysis of the RTI Literature for Children at Risk for Reading Disabilities	2011	Response to Intervention programs	13	0	107	0.76
Journal of School Psychology	Burns & Symington	USA	A meta-analysis of prereferral intervention teams: Student and systemic outcomes	2002	Use of prereferral intervention teams	11	0	57	0.96
Review of Educational Research	Swanson & Lussier	USA	A selective synthesis of the experimental literature on dynamic assessment	2001	Dynamic assessment (feedback)	30	5,104	170	1.12
Dissertation	Torres	USA	A Meta-Analysis of Research-Based Reading Interventions with English Language Learners.	2016	Response to Intervention programs	20	0	11	0.32
Dissertation	Bagasi	USA	Meta analysis of the effectiveness of response to intervention models in special education and implications for international implementations.	2014	Response to Intervention programs	19	0	19	0.47
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment	Burns, Appleton, & Stehouwer	USA	Meta-Analytic Review of Responsiveness-to-Intervention Research: Examining Field-Based and Research-Implemented Models	2005	Response to Intervention programs	25	0	25	1.49
Psychological Development and Education	Wang, Xu, & Sha	China	Effectiveness of the intervention-response model in identifying learning disabilities and its moderators: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research.	2016	Response to Intervention programs	34	6,127	261	0.50
Review of Educational Research	Stuebing, Barth, & Trahan	USA	Are child cognitive characteristics strong predictors of responses to intervention? A meta-analysis	2015	Response to Intervention programs	28	0	39	0.30
TOTAL/AVERAGE						180	11,231	689	0.74