Action Research on Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) in an Elementary Special Education Classroom

Key Points

• The research aims to explore changes in classroom participation and disruption behaviors of students with developmental disabilities through the CW-FIT intervention.
• Conducted action research in an elementary special education classroom.
• Applied CW-FIT to observe behaviors of 5 students before, during, and after intervention.
• Performed observations in integrated classroom settings using the same criteria.
• Collected and analyzed qualitative data for social validity assessment.
• Classroom participation behaviors in students increased during the CW-FIT intervention.
• Disruption behaviors in students showed a decreasing trend.
• Similar behavioral changes were observed in the integrated classroom context.

Abstract