AN ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS BENCHMARKS OF QUALITY SCORE GAINS ON STUDENT RISK SCREENING SCALE SCORES

Abstract

Treatment integrity, or the degree to which an intervention is implemented as designed, has been overlooked in research and practice (Gresham, 1998). The Benchmarks of Quality (BoQ) is a treatment integrity tool used to measure the implementation fidelity of School Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (SWPBIS). The Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS) is a universal screener that identifies students at risk of developing behavioral issues. This study examined previously collected BoQ and SRSS data from nine middle Tennessee schools. It was predicted: a) schools would increase BoQ scores across years and b) that schools with higher BoQ scores would see an increase in students identified as low risk on the SRSS . All schools dramatically increased BoQ scores. There was an increasing trend in the percentage of students in the low risk category, but the change across years did not reach statistical significance except in one school.