Teacher perspectives on intervention sustainability: implications for school leadership |
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| Authors: | Johny Daniel Christopher Lemons |
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| Institution: | Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
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| Abstract: | Sustainable use of academic classroom interventions is a cause for concern in the field of special education. This study examined factors that encouraged and/or deterred sustainable use of classroom interventions. Furthermore, data were collected on factors that assist teachers to implement new interventions with high perceived fidelity. A total of 174 special education teachers from two school districts completed a survey to provide feedback on interventions they had been trained on in the last two academic years. Results for both districts had several similarities. A majority of teachers sustained interventions that they perceived improved student academic outcomes and were easy to implement. Teachers identified lack of planning time followed by the need for regular training as the most important factors contributing to their perceived implementation fidelity. However, a majority of interventions teachers provided feedback on were not evidence-based practices. |
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| Keywords: | Evidence-based practice sustainability classroom intervention professional development research-to-practice gap teacher perspectives |
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