Speaker
Description
Background
The purpose of this presentation will be to show novel research examining the effectiveness and intervention scale up of Check-In/Check-Out (CICO; Hawken et al., 2021). CICO is a Tier 2 behavioral intervention designed to prevent challenging student behavior and to promote student wellbeing. Although empirical studies (e.g., Flannery et al., 2024; Kittelman et al., 2024) have shown CICO to improve student outcomes (e.g., academic engagement, adult and peer relationships, affect), prior research has largely been conducted using sample sizes. Alternatively, this presentation will share data examining the effectiveness of CICO using a sample of 24,425 students in 1,766 U.S. schools.
Methods
To answer the research questions, descriptive statistics and multilevel regression models were conducted to examine predictors of student success and intervention scale up across schools.
Results
The main findings of this study showed that a majority of students who received CICO benefited from the program. In addition, we found interesting results regarding when students are likely to participate in the program and how many students schools can support on the intervention during the school year. We also found that school organizational systems (e.g., teaming, screening systems) predicted how many students schools could support on the intervention.
Discussion
The findings of this study have important implications for research and practice. For example, one of the limitations of the study was that many fewer high schools participated in implementing CICO compared to elementary or middle schools. Future research is needed to examine the effectiveness of CICO in high schools. Implications for practice include schools developing more efficient and effective teaming structures to support more students on CICO to improve intervention scale up and effectiveness.
| Conflict of interest | None |
|---|
