An Impact Evaluation of Training in Multi-Tiered Systems of mSupport for Behavior (MTSS-B)

Appendix D: Staff Interview Protocol

These questions are from the School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET)¹ and Individual Students Systems Evaluation Tool (ISSET) ²and stay the same at each wave.

Interviewer_ID: District_ID: School_ID:

Introduction (introduction will be repeated for each randomly selected staff member at each wave; no identifiable information will be collected from the respondent):

Hi, my name is _________ and I work with the MTSS-B Study about behavior support practices at your school. Do you have time to answer a few questions? Participation is completely voluntary. It should take no more than five minutes.

INTERVIEW ITEMS

1. What are the school rules? (Record responses. If said verbatim, just record the number of rules stated correctly).

2. Have you taught the school rules/behavior expectations this year?

Yes No

3. Have you given out any (____________ name of school-wide reinforcer) since ____________(2 months)? Yes No

4. What type of student problems do/would you refer to the office?

5. What is the process for requesting assistance from the SST for a student? (not asked of office and cafeteria/custodian)

6. Is there a team in your school to address school-wide behavior support discipline systems?

7. What is the name of this team?

8. Are you a member of this team? (if yes, ask Team Interview Questions).

TEAM INTERVIEW

• Team members (at least 3 members of PBIS team; these can also be classroom teachers).

INTERVIEW ITEMS

1. Does your team use discipline data to make decisions?

2. Has your team taught/reviewed the school-wide program with staff this year?

3. Who is the team leader/facilitator?

4. How often does your team meet?

1 Sugai et al., 2005

2 Anderson et al., 2014. Debnam et al., 2012.