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Test Review: Measures of Academic Progress Skills
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Burns, Matthew K.; Young, Helen – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Skills is a web-based assessment system published by Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). The test publishers purport that MAP Skills provides information about essential K-8 building blocks in Language Usage, Mathematics, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary to quickly assess student progress toward…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Language Skills, Mathematics Skills, Reading Comprehension
Predicting Intervention Effects with Preintervention Measures of Decoding: Evidence for a Skill-by-Treatment Interaction with Kindergarten and First-Grade Students
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Burns, Matthew K.; Young, Helen; McCollom, Elizabeth M.; Stevens, Mallory A.; Izumi, Jared T. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
A skill-by-treatment interaction (STI) isolates skill deficits and manipulates conditions to match them to student needs. Based on the learning hierarchy, preintervention scores can help predict which intervention will be most successful for an individual student. This study compared the efficacy of a modeling and practice-based decoding…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Contributions of the Components of Phonemic Awareness to Letter-Sound Knowledge with Kindergarten Students in High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools
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Burns, Matthew K.; Maki, Kathrin E.; Helman, Lori; McComas, Jennifer J.; Young, Helen – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Phonemic awareness (PA) includes rhyming, phoneme isolation, blending, and segmenting, but the relative importance of each component is unclear, especially for students from high-poverty areas. The current study examined the relationship between components of PA and an early literacy measure among 192 kindergarten students from high-poverty urban…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Kindergarten, Young Children
Comparing the Effects of Incremental Rehearsal and Traditional Drill on Retention of Mathematics Facts and Predicting the Effects with Memory
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Burns, Matthew K.; Aguilar, Lisa N.; Young, Helen; Preast, June L.; Taylor, Crystal N.; Walsh, Allison D. – School Psychology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Incremental Rehearsal (IR) and traditional drill (TD) on retention of multiplication facts with 29 students in third and fourth grades with low mathematical skills. Results indicated that IR led to significantly more facts being retained, and was essentially equal to TD for efficiency as…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction
Leadership Theory for School Psychologists: Leading for Systems Change
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Burns, Matthew K.; Preast, June L.; Kilpatrick, Kayla D.; Taylor, Crystal N.; Young, Helen; Aguilar, Lisa; Allen, Amanda; Copeland, Christa; Haider, Aqdas; Henry, Lauren – Communique, 2017
School psychologists are often seen as leaders in schools. They lead data teams, problem-solving teams, multidisciplinary evaluation teams, and crisis response teams. They are also perceived as leaders regarding intervention, multitiered systems of support, behavior support, collaboration, consultation, special education, assessment, and…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Leadership Responsibility, Role, Educational Research