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Universal Screening for Behavior in Pennsylvania: Collaboration with Researchers and Implementers

This presentation discusses Pennsylvania's PBIS structure, the rationale for universal screening of behavior, and the collaboration between PaPBIS, school districts, and university researchers. The study's lessons learned are also shared.

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Universal Screening for Behavior in Pennsylvania: Collaboration with Researchers and Implementers

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  1. Universal Screening for Behavior: Pennsylvania’s Collaboration with Researchers and District Level Implementers’ Tina Lawson PaTTAN Kathleen Lynne Lane University of Kansas Wendy P. Oakes Arizona State University

  2. Agenda • Define Pennsylvania’s PBIS Structure • Provide a Rationale for Universal Screening of Behavior • Define the Partnership between PaPBIS, School Districts, and the University Researchers • Define the Study • Share Lessons Learned

  3. PA PBIS…

  4. Participating Schools / LEAs Inclusive of both cohorts, all 29 Intermediate Units (IUs) have staff participating in the PAPBS Network as facilitators, consultants, etc.

  5. PAPBS Network SWPBIS Sites – Cohort 1 (2007) &Cohort 2 (2009-present)

  6. The rationale …

  7. Prevalence Considerations Lane & Oakes

  8. Student with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD) Externalizing Internalizing Lane & Oakes

  9. Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-Tiered Model of Prevention (Lane, Kalberg, & Menzies, 2009) Goal: Reduce Harm Specialized Individual Systems for Students with High-Risk Goal: Reverse Harm Specialized Group Systems for Students At-Risk PBIS Framework Goal: Prevent Harm School/Classroom-Wide Systems for All Students, Staff, & Settings Validated Social Skills Program Behavioral Academic Social

  10. Systematic Screening

  11. (SRSS; Drummond, 1994) Student Risk Screening Scale

  12. Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS; Drummond, 1994) • The SRSS is 7-item mass screener used to identify students who are at risk for antisocial behavior. This tool is appealing to schools because it takes minimal teacher time and is of no cost. • Teachers evaluate each student on the following items - Steal - Low Academic Achievement - Lie, Cheat, Sneak - Negative Attitude - Behavior Problem - Aggressive Behavior - Peer Rejection • Each item is rated on a Likert-type scale of 0-3 • Never 0 • Occasionally 1 • Sometimes 2 • Frequently 3 • Student Risk is divided into 3 categories • Low 0 – 3 • Moderate 4 – 8 • High 9 – 21

  13. Student Risk Screening Scale(SRSS; Drummond, 1994)

  14. Student Risk Screening Scale-IE Original SRSS-IE 14 12 items retained for use at the elementary level 14 items under development in middle and high schools (Lane, Oakes, Harris, Menzies, Cox, & Lambert, 2012)

  15. (SSiS- PSG; Elliott & Gresham, 2007) Social Skills Improvement System – Performance Screening Guide

  16. Social Skills Improvement System – Performance Screening Guide(SSiS- PSG; Elliott & Gresham, 2007)

  17. SSiS– Performance Screening Guide • 4 items per student • Preschool Scale – 4-point Rubric • Elementary Scale – 5-point Rubric • Behavioral areas assessed • Prosocial Behavior • Motivation to Learn • Reading Skills (Early Reading Skills) • Math Skills (Early Math Skills)

  18. SSiS – Performance Screening GuideRisk Categories • Preschool Scale Adequate Progress = 3 or 4 (green band) Moderate Risk = 2 (yellow band) Elevated Risk = 1 (red band) • Elementary Scale Adequate Performance = 4 or 5 (green band) Moderate Difficulties = 2 or 3 (yellow band) Significant Difficulty = 1 (red band)

  19. Report the findings of a psychometric study exploring reliability of the SRSS-IE in secondary schools • Report the convergent validity comparing scores two screening tools: the Student Risk Screening Scale – Internalizing and Externalizing (SRSS-IE) and the Social Skills Improvement System – Performance Screening Guide (SSiS-PSG; Elliott & Gresham, 2007). Purpose

  20. The Partnership journey …

  21. Natural next step • Network Schools • Tier 1 with high fidelity • Advanced tier systems in place • Network Facilitators • Eligible Districts were close to a major airport • Kathleen and Wendy were interested!!!

  22. The study …

  23. METHOD A Look in School Secondary Schools

  24. Table 1 Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  25. Table 1 Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  26. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  27. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  28. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  29. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  30. Table 2 School Characteristics 2010-2011

  31. ProceduresStudy 1: Middle School & high school • Consenting Meetings • Completed two measures for one class period • SRSS-IE (10-15 min) • SSIS-PSG (30 min) • Social Validity • Data entry and reliability by research assistants

  32. METHOD A Look in Elementary Schools

  33. Table 1 Student and Teacher Characteristics

  34. Table 1 Student and Teacher Characteristics

  35. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics

  36. Table 1 cont. Student and TeacherCharacteristics

  37. Table 1 cont. Student and Teacher Characteristics Note. Percentages are based on the number of participants who completed the item.

  38. Table 2 School Characteristics 2012-2013

  39. Results Study 2: Elementary Schools

  40. Table 3 Convergent Validity: SRSS-E7, SRSS-I5, and SRSS-IE12 with the SSiS-PSG

  41. Table 4 Test-Retest Stability: SRSS-IE and SSiS-PSG

  42. Social Validity – ES Teacher in Fall The greater differences appear to be related to: • SRSS-IE (a free-access screening tool) rated more favorably • Monetary resources (Cohen’s d = 1.40) as the primary concern • Easy to prepare (Cohen’s d = .73), SSiS-PSG to be better able to • cover the critical elements of behavior that concern teachers (Item 5; Cohen’s d = -.40), • offer teachers important information to support students (Item 6; Cohen’s d= -.46), and • offer the school as a whole important information (Item 7; Cohen’s d= -.46). Total social validity scores suggest a low-magnitude favorable rating for the SRSS-IE as whole relative to the SSiS-PSG. However, time, ease, and cost were the key factors; not utility.

  43. The Lessons Learned …

  44. District perspective • Administrative leadership both district and building level is critical • Convenience is KEY! • Faculty appreciated the ability to share perspectives through social validity survey • Faculty appreciated immediate feedback through electronic format • Participants needed frequent reminders of the conceptual purpose of Universal Screening • Consent • Follow up with plans for sustainability

  45. Subsequent Inquiry …

  46. SRSS-IE:SRSS-E7, SRSS-I5Cut Scores • Enter ‘practice’ data into that one sheet so that the total scores and conditional formatting are tested. • Items 1-7 (The SRSS externalizing scale) 0 – 3 low risk 4 – 8 moderate risk (yellow) 9 – 21 high risk (red) • Items 8-12 (The SRSS-IE internalizing items)*preliminary cut scores for elementary only 0 – 1 low risk 2 – 3 moderate (yellow) 4 – 15 high (red) Lane, K. L., Oakes, W. P., Swogger, E. D., Schatschneider, C., Menzies, H., M., & Sanchez, J. (in press). Student risk screening scale for internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Preliminary cut scores to support data-informed decision making. Behavioral Disorders

  47. Sample … Winter SRSS-E7 Results – All Students N = 15 N = 66 N = 276

  48. Sample … Winter SRSS-I5 Results – All Students N = 27 N = 48 N = 282

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