Deeply Tailoring Adaptive Interventions: Enhancing Knowledge Generation of SMARTs in Special Education

Special educators serve a diverse population of students with unique strengths and needs, and adaptive interventions that account for individual differences before and during the intervention are an important tool to moving the field toward more individualized practices. The purpose of this article...

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Published in:Remedial and special education 2022-06, Vol.43 (3), p.195-205
Main Authors: Hampton, Lauren H., Chow, Jason C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Individual Differences
Intervention
Program Development
Progress Monitoring
Research Design
Special Education
Student Diversity
Student Needs
Students with Disabilities
Tactics
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Summary:Special educators serve a diverse population of students with unique strengths and needs, and adaptive interventions that account for individual differences before and during the intervention are an important tool to moving the field toward more individualized practices. The purpose of this article is to detail the conceptualization and application of tailoring the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design approach to developing and evaluating deeply tailored adaptive interventions through the application of secondary analyses to account for individual differences at multiple time points. This conceptual paper provides an overview beyond the basic SMART design components by describing the tactics, design options, and analyses currently available to further refine a SMART study into a more personalized intervention to account for individual differences at multiple points throughout the intervention and individual response to treatment.
ISSN:0741-9325
1538-4756
DOI:10.1177/07419325211030669