📘 MTSS in Secondary Schools: Strategies to support every student. Download guide
  • By role

    By Need

  • PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

    PARTNERSHIP

  • Spotlight

    Savings

  • Learn

    EVENTS

By role

By Need

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

PARTNERSHIP

Spotlight

Savings

Learn

EVENTS

MTSS Practice MTSS Basics

Evaluating the Quality and Impact of Your MTSS/RTI Practice

Dr. Eva Dundas-avatar

Written by

Dr. Eva Dundas

Published on

January 20, 2021

Last updated

February 24, 2025

Evaluating the Quality and Impact of Your MTSS/RTI Practice

    In a healthy RTI/MTSS practice, a data-driven approach is not only important for guiding decisions for individual student needs, but it’s also critical for evaluating the quality and impact of the practice at the school and district level. We recommend that school and/or district leadership meet three times a year, following the administration of universal screening assessments, to reflect on and evaluate their practice. The goal of this meeting is to understand the health of school-level MTSS/RT practice by looking at the percent of students who are adequately being served by the core, the level of instruction across demographics, and improvement in student outcome measures since the last meeting. These metrics are used to evaluate the quality of practice across tier 1, 2, and 3 levels of support and guide school-level improvement plans.


    WEBINAR: Evaluating the Quality and Effectiveness of your MTSS Practice

    Evaluating the quality of your MTSS practice



    Dr. Eva Dundas-avatar

    About the author

    Dr. Eva Dundas

    Dr. Dundas is the Chief Learning Officer of Branching Minds, where she pursues her mission to bridge the gap between the science of learning and education practice. Dr. Dundas has a Ph.D. in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University where she conducted research on how the brain develops when children acquire visual expertise for words and faces. Her research also explores how the relationship between neural systems (specifically language and visual processing) unfolds over development, and how those dynamics differ with neurodevelopmental disorders like dyslexia and autism. She has published articles on that subject in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Dr. Dundas also has a M.Ed. in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard University; and a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh.

    Branching Minds

    Your MTSS Transformation Starts Here

    Enhance your MTSS process. Book a Branching Minds demo today.