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ERIC Number: EJ758837
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0741-9325
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Creative Problem Solving for General Education Intervention Teams: A Two-Year Evaluation Study
Bahr, Michael W.; Walker, Kenneth; Hampton, Eric M.; Buddle, Bonita S.; Freeman, Tamyra; Ruschman, Nancy; Sears, Jennifer; McKinney, Angela; Miller, Maurice; Littlejohn, William
Remedial and Special Education, v27 n1 p27-41 Jan-Feb 2006
Creative problem solving (CPS) is an approach for identifying solutions to problems within a structured, facilitated process. In the current studies, CPS was customized for general education intervention (GEI) teams in elementary schools. In the first study, 24 GEI teams were randomly assigned either to a CPS for GEI training condition or to a control group. Team outcome measures were tracked over the course of a school year, and the CPS for GEI teams consistently demonstrated superior performance relative to controls across all measures. One year later, a second study investigated 2 approaches to delivering training in CPS for GEI teams. Five teams received CPS for GEI training directly from university-based staff, and 9 teams received training from employees in their district who had previously received CPS for GEI training from the university-based staff (a "train-the-trainers" approach). Schools receiving training from their own staff performed as well as the independently trained schools, thereby providing support for the train-the-trainers approach. Discussion focuses on the results from both studies and identifies areas for future research and practice with CPS for GEI teams.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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