Research
Research Summary
Let's Get Together™, software and professional development
curriculum was piloted by The Ohio Department of Education, the Central Ohio Special Education
Regional Resource Center, and Central Ohio Regional Professional Development Center.
Let's Get Together™ Software Research Summary
Based on:
- 1,000 students, grades K-5, in four schools
- All participating students had the same access to software.
- Results from a random sample (n=500) indicated that 96% of those students experiencing a
conflict resolved it with no further intervention.
- Post test data collected six months after the initial intervention indicated a 94% recognition
rate of the Let's Get Together™ characters, their purpose and
availability via computer.
- Two schools had a special education population of 15%.
96% of those students who used the software solved their conflict and required no
further intervention.
Students sent to the office for discipline request to use the Let's
Get Together™ software 75% of the time.
85% of students, grades K-2 using the software to solve their conflicts, successfully solved their
conflicts.
92% of students, grades 3-5 using the software to solve their conflicts, successfully solved their
conflicts.
91% of students with IEPs, using the software to solve their conflicts, successfully solved
their conflicts.
Summary of Administrators' Report in Software Research
- Participating administrators unanimously reported that the software builds students'
ability to identify different perspectives and problem-solve, decrease teachers' time spent
in conflict intervention, de-escalates conflict and intensity of violent behaviors, and decreases
disciplinary referrals.
- 95% of teachers requested the software be on their classroom computers.
- 5% of teachers, and their students, were in the control group. Of those teachers, 82%,
(includes special education) had students who used the software elsewhere in the school.
Professional Development:
Pilot school staff teams received training in the
Let's Get Together Process for Decision-Making, Managing Conflict
and Change™
Professional Development Research Outcomes:
School teams expected that they'd use the decision-making process to focus on
planning new disciplinary policies and procedures. There were other, just as important, uses and
effects such as:
- Unanimous selection of a whole-school reading program
- 100% of consensus by staff to reorganize the playground
- Consensus by staff in the re-development of a K-5 spiral Science curriculum
- Consensus reached by Site-Base Management committee for organizational structure
- Change in discipline procedures
- Consensus reached by staff to change Intervention Assistance Team (IAT) procedures
- Change in student intervention policy and procedures
Outcomes in Pilot Schools Implementing Let's Get Together for Student Interventions
(IAT) Model
- 97% staff participation in LGT/IAT training
- 85% increase in designing effective interventions
- 40% reduction in testing referrals for learning disabilities
- The 60% decrease in the total number of students tested for qualification for Special Education
came as the total number of intervention team meetings increased by 25%.
Conclusion: There was a 25% increase in student intervention meetings and an efficiency
rate improvement to 100% in determining students to be eligible to receive special education services.
Additionally, there was a 60% total decrease of inappropriate Multi-Factored Evaluations which resulted
in 85% more children being served with effective and appropriate interventions at the classroom level
and documented increase in student achievement and behavior.
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