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Too Much, Too Soon? Unanswered Questions from National Response to Intervention Evaluation
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Gersten, Russell; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Dimino, Joseph – Exceptional Children, 2017
The report of the national response to intervention (RTI) evaluation study, conducted during 2011-2012, was released in November 2015. Anyone who has read the lengthy report can attest to its complexity and the design used in the study. Both these factors can influence the interpretation of the results from this evaluation. In this commentary, we…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, National Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Four Fallacies of Segregationism.
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Wang, Margaret C.; Walberg, Herbert J. – Exceptional Children, 1988
Identified are four major fallacies in Douglas Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs' critique of the Adaptive Learning Environments Model (ALEM) and the General Education Initiative (GEI): erroneous interpretations of the GEI, segregationism in the Fuchs' point of view, the research base of the ALEM, and readiness for the GEI. (JDD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Response to Wang and Walberg.
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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Exceptional Children, 1988
This paper refutes the arguments of Margaret Wang and Herbert Walberg in their support of the Adaptive Learning Environments Model (ALEM) and the General Education Initiative. It focuses on the small number of ALEM implementations and replications, weaknesses of the research and evaluations supporting ALEM, and other specific criticisms. (JDD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education