• PMD: 3
• Cost: Included in Registration
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

1. analyze how cooperative and competitive goal setting strategies can be used to enhance student reading fluency in reading interventions;
2. implement goal setting strategies in reading interventions that are effective and have high acceptability among students and interventionists;
3. describe an approach that considers individual student differences and how they might respond to different goal setting strategies; and
4. analyze and integrate social validity and outcome data from the study to make decisions about intervention selection in schools.

Description

Incorporating goal-setting strategies in reading interventions enhances student engagement and motivation. Learn about the impact of adding cooperative versus competitive goal-setting conditions to a repeated reading intervention with elementary-age students.

Presenter(s)

Megan A. Underwood, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire

Contributor(s)

Michael I. Axelrod