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Welcome to the Increasing Academic Achievement Study being conducted by The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) at the University of Connecticut. The NRC/GT has developed five intervention strategies, and you and your chosen student will implement our Goal Valuation intervention. Throughout this CD-ROM, we will alternate between "he" and "she" when referring to a student to avoid gender inequity.

By now you, your student, and his or her parents should have completed the School Attitude Assessment Survey (SAAS). You and your student's parents should also have completed the Student Behavior Checklist. We are now ready to begin increasing your student's attitude about academic achievement. This CD-ROM contains background information and specific strategies that you will be using. 

 

A research contact from The National Research Center on the Gifted will email you periodically to review your student's progress and to answer questions. We appreciate your participation and look forward to working with you on this very important project.

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Previous users of this CD-ROM indicated they would prefer a paper copy of the material on this CD-ROM to review after viewing the CD. We have created a PDF that contains all of the content of this CD-ROM. Click here if you wish to open the file for printing. Some of the page formatting is lost on the pdf. If you do not have Acrobat Reader (necessary to view the PDF), you can download a free copy from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html


Your commitment to improving student achievement is appreciated.

 

Principal Investigators
Del Siegle and Sally Reis

Study Design Team
Del Siegle, Sally Reis, and D. Betsy McCoach

Intervention Development Team
D. Betsy McCoach, Del Siegle, Sally M. Reis, Meredith Greene, and Ric Schreiber

Study Implementation Team
Del Siegle, Sally M. Reis, Becky Mann, Michele Moore, and Scott Davie

 

The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
Neag School of Education - University of Connecticut
2131 Hillside Road Unit 3007
Storrs, CT 06269-3007