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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Multi-tiered systems of support

Overview

  • Influence: Multi-tiered systems of support
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
  • Influence Definition: MTSS is more general education and less assessment oriented, is framed in a culture of collaboration with teachers to diagnose, create intervention programs, evaluate success, and where necessary demonstrate to teachers how to best teach specific students (and can involve specialists teaching the students to return to the class).

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 1
  • Number of studies: 14
  • Number of students: 3,059
  • Number of effects: 16
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.31
  • Robustness index: 1

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Early Childhood Research Quarterly Shepley & Grisham-Brown USA Multi-tiered systems of support for preschool-aged children: A review and meta-analysis. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 296-308. 2019 Multi-tier systems of support 14 3,059 16 0.31
TOTAL/AVERAGE 14 3,059 16 0.31
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