ABSTRACT
This chapter provides articles that address the key people who influence and make decisions within the Response to Intervention process. It addresses evidence-based practices in teacher preparation that should be merged with Response to Intervention (RTI) content and delivered in engaging ways in college courses and field experience. The chapter presents a model for utilizing the problem-solving model as a way to utilize data and make decisions about individual students. Sarah Conoyer and her co-authors discuss potential models of parent and student involvement, and review the limited literature in these areas. They describe the results from studies completed by the author team that addressed parent and student involvement in the RTI process. These studies occurred with elementary students and their parents, primarily. Three studies were conducted with parallel methods, but unique samples, and results from these studies are utilized to support effective methods for parent and student involvement.
