Data-based Decision-making: Evaluating the Impact of School-wide Positive Behavior Support

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Data-based Decision-makingEvaluating the Impact
of School-wide Positive Behavior Support

• George Sugai, Rob Horner, Anne Todd, and Teri
  Lewis-Palmer
• University of Oregon
• OSEP Funded Technical Assistance Center
• www.pbis.org

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Purpose

• Examine the extent to which the logic of
  School-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) fits
  your real experience in schools
• Define the outcomes for School-wide PBS
• Is School-wide PBS related to reduction in
  problem behavior?
• Is School-wide PBS related to improved school
  safety?
• Is School-wide PBS related to improved academic
  performance?
• Define tools for measuring School-wide PBS
  outcomes
• Examine a problem-solving approach for using
  office discipline referral (ODR) data for
  decision-making
• Provide strategies for using data for
  decision-making and action planning

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To Improve Schools for Children

• Use evidence-based practices
• Always look for data of effectiveness
• Never stop doing what is working
• Implement the smallest change that will result in
  the largest improvement
• Measure Compare Improvement

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Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success
1-5
1-5
5-10
5-10
80-90
80-90
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SW Positive Behavior Support
Social Competence, Academic Achievement, and
Safety
OUTCOMES
Supporting Decision- Making
DATA
Supporting Staff Behavior
SYSTEMS
PRACTICES
Supporting Student Behavior
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Improving Decision-Making
Solution
Problem
From
Problem-solving Information
Problem
Solution
To
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Problem-solving Steps

• Define the problem(s)
• Analyze the data
• Define the outcomes and data sources for
  measuring the outcomes
• Consider 2-3 options that might work
• Evaluate each option
• Is it safe?
• Is it doable?
• Will it work?
• Choose an option to try
• Determine the timeframe to evaluate effectiveness
• Evaluate effectiveness by using the data
• Is it worth continuing?
• Try a different option?
• Re-define the problem?

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Key Features of Effective Data Systems

• Data are accurate
• Data are very easy to collect
• Data are used for decision-making
• Data are available when decisions need to be made
• Data collectors must see the information used for
  decision-making

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Guiding Considerations

• Use accessible data
• Handle data as few times as possible
• Build data collection into daily routines
• Establish and use data collection as a
  conditioned positive reinforcer
• Share data summaries with those who collect it

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Types of Questions

• Initial Assessment Questions
• What type or which program do we need?
• Where should we focus our efforts?
• Ongoing Evaluation Questions
• Is the program working?
• If no,
• Can it be changed?
• Should we end the program?
• If yes,
• Do we need this program anymore?
• What do we need to do to sustain success?

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What Data Should be Collected?

• Always start with the questions you want to
  answer
• Make data that will answer your question
• Easy, available, reliable
• Balance between reliability and accessibility
• Systems approach
• Consider logistics
• Who? When? Where? How?
• Two levels
• What is readily accessible?
• What requires extra resources?

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When Should Data Decisions Be Made?

• Natural cycles, meeting times
• Weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually
• Level of system addressed
• Individual daily, weekly
• School-wide monthly, quarterly
• District/ Region
• State-level

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Basic Evaluation Questionsby School or Program

• What does it look like now?
• How would we know if are successful?
• Are we satisfied with how it looks?
• YES
• Celebrate
• NO
• What do we want it to look like?
• What do we need to do to make it look like
  that?
• What can we do to keep it like that?

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Basic School-wide PBS Evaluation Questionsby
School/ District/ Region

• Are our efforts making a difference?
• How many schools have adopted School-wide PBS?
• Are schools adopting School-wide PBS to
  criterion?
• Are schools who are implementing School-wide PBS
  perceived as safe?
• Are teachers delivering instructional lessons
  with fidelity as planned?
• Is School-wide PBS improving student outcomes?

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Is School-wide PBS Having a Positive Influence on
School Culture? Using Office Discipline Referral
Data
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Office Discipline Referrals and The BIG 5!

• Examine office discipline referral rates and
  patterns
• Major Problem events
• Minor Problem events
• Ask the BIG 5 questions
• How often are problem behavior events occurring?
• Where are they happening?
• What types of problem behaviors?
• When are the problems occurring?
• Who is contributing?

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what
where
The BIG 5
when
How often
who
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Office Discipline Referral Caution

• Data reflects 3 factors
• Students
• Staff members
• Office personnel
• Data reflects overt rule violators
• Data is useful when implementation is consistent
• Do staff and administration agree on
  office-managed problem behavior verses
  classroom-managed behavior?

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General Procedure for Dealing with Problem
Behaviors
Observe problem behavior
Find a place to talk with student(s)
Is behavior major?
NO
YES
Ensure safety
Problem solve
Write referral and Escort student to office
Problem solve
Determine consequence
Determine consequence
Follow procedure documented
Follow documented procedure
Does student have 3?
NO
YES
Follow through with consequences
File necessary documentation
Send referral to office
File necessary documentation
Follow up with student within a week
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SWIS Compatibility Checklist Procedure for
Documenting Office Discipline Referrals School
___________________________
Date ____________________
Next review date _______________ Redesign
your form until answers to all questions are
Yes. Readiness requirements 4 and 5 are
complete when you have all Yes responses.
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Tables versus Graphs
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Number of ODR per Day and Month
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Total verses Rate
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Total Number of ODRs per Month
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Number of ODRs per Day and Month
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Priorities and Rationale

• Graphs
• Rate

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SWISTM summary 05-06 (Majors Only)1668 schools,
838,184 students
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Interpreting Office Referral DataIs there a
problem?

• Absolute level (depending on size of school)
• Middle Schools (gt5 per day)
• Elementary Schools (gt1.5-2 per day)
• Compare levels to last year
• Improvement?
• Trends
• Peaks before breaks?
• Gradually increasing trend across year?

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• What is summary for
• High school of 850 students? 2. High School of
  1825 students?
• 3. Elem. school of 625 students? 4. Middle
  School of 625 students?

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• What is summary for
• High school of 850 students? 2. High School of
  1825 students?
• 3. Elem. school of 625 students? 4. Middle School
  of 625 students?

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Trevor Test Middle School

• 565 students
• Grades 6,7, and 8

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Lang. Defiance Disrespect
Harrass Skip
1200
Cafeteria Class Commons Hall
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Langley Elementary School

• 478 Students
• Kindergarten - Grade 5

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What Does a Reduction of 850 Office Discipline
Referrals and 25 Suspensions Mean?Kennedy
Middle School

• Savings in Administrative Time
• ODR 15 minutes/ event
• Suspension 45 minutes/event
• 13,875 minutes
• 231 hours
• 29, 8-hour days

• Savings in Student Instructional Time
• ODR 45 minutes/ event
• Suspension 216 minutes/ event
• 43,650 minutes
• 728 hours
• 121, 6-hour school days

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Is Implementation Related to Reduction in Problem
Behavior?767 students
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Are Schools Adopting School-wide PBS to
Criterion?

• Use the
• Team Implementation Checklist (TIC)
• School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET)
• EBS Self-Assessment Survey (School-wide section)
• Other
• Measure and analyze annually
• Well focus on TIC today!

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Team Implementation Checklist (TIC)

• Characterizes the evolution of School-wide PBS
  implementation
• Achieved, In progress, or Not started
• Assists in
• Initial assessment
• Getting started on action plan
• Measuring progress of School-wide PBS
  Implementation
• Assesses team-based response
• Quarterly or monthly

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TIC Feature Areas

• Establish Commitment
• Establish and Maintain Team
• Conduct Self-Assessment
• Define Expectations
• Teach Expectations
• Establish Reward System
• Establish Violations System
• Establish Information System
• Build Capacity for Function-based Support
• Ongoing Activities

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Team Implementation Checklist
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Team Implementation Checklist continued
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Team Implementation Checklist continued
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Scoring the TIC

• Implementation Points
• Achieved 2
• In progress 1
• Not Started 0
• Percentage of Items Implemented
• Total
• Number of items scored as Achieved divided by
  17 (items)
• Subscale scores
• Number of items in each subscale area scored as
  Achieved divided by the number of items in that
  subscale area
• Percentage of Points Implemented
• Total
• Total number of points divided by 34
• Subscale scores
• Total number of points in each subscale divided
  by total number of items multiplied by 2

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Team Implementation Checklist (TIC)
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Team Implementation Checklist (TIC)
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Total Average TIC Scores
Schools
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1. What is working well? 2. What are next steps?
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1. What is going well? 2. What are next steps?
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1. What is going well? 2. What are next steps?
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A Case Study Example
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Patterson and Family Schools

• K-5, 250 students
• Traditional and alternative schools share a
  campus
• Organized for PBS in 1996
• First year implementation in 1997
• One administrator one Site Council/ Advisory
  Board two budgets
• Sustained efforts through 2004
• New school built, two campus merged
• PBS continued
• Staff and families would have it no other way!

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Pre score not available
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Eugene School District

• Assessment of academic gains across five years
  (1997-98 to 2001-02)
• Proportion of students meeting state standards in
  reading and math
• Change in percentage of students meeting state
  standards
• Pre 1997-98
• Post 2001-02 (four years of implementation)

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Main Messages

• Invest in prevention
• Create an effective environment
• Leadership, teams hosts for effective practices
• Use different systems for different problems
• Individual student level alone will be
  insufficient
• Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals
• Build a culture of competence
• Define, teach, monitor, and reward appropriate
  behavior
• Build sustainable systems
• Resist person-dependent interventions
• Invest in gathering and using information for
  decision-making and problem-solving

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Action Planning

• Use your self-assessment information
• Rally School-wide commitment
• Establish a PBS Team
• Focus on prevention (define, teach, monitor, and
  reward appropriate behavior)
• Ask kids tomorrow if they know the expectations
• Ask kids if they are being acknowledged for
  appropriate behavior
• Use information system to guide implementation
  efforts
• Build Action Plan
• When will the team meet?
• What will be reported to faculty?
• What will be reported to families?

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Action Planning

• Which system are you going to work on?
• What are the specific outcomes?
• When will they be completed?
• What short-term activities are needed?
• Who will be responsible?
• Reporting Schedule
• What information will be gathered and by whom?
• When will information be reported?

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