Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: The strongest argument against is that any easily administered testing is biased towards lower level skills (as defined in Bloom's taxonomy). That would be OK, depending on how the data is used. Any attempt to modify teaching in

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: The strongest argument against is that any easily administered

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:48 AM,

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 21:12, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: This is a simple, yet powerful idea of tracking student progress in real time and trying different interventions to see what works. I give a brief three minute description here: 

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:34, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 21:12, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: This is a simple, yet powerful idea of tracking student progress in real time and trying different interventions to see what works. I give a brief

[IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-11 Thread Caroline Meeks
This is a simple, yet powerful idea of tracking student progress in real time and trying different interventions to see what works. I give a brief three minute description here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI95fgBnJWI There is a great deal on the web about RTI but everything I have seen in

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-11 Thread forster
Caroline Thanks for bring this to my attention, you have done a good video presentation of it. Testing (and tailoring instruction as a response) is coming back into fashion in Australia. Australia seems to lag the US in this. The US has had the No Child Left Behind for a while now, which has