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Designing a Data-Tracking System for a Private Therapeutic Day School

Bittner, Olin J.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-4247
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1448896028

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2015, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology.
The Children's Institute on Mercer Island (CHILD) is a private therapeutic day school in the Seattle area serving students in elementary and secondary education. Their stated mission is to "provide innovative school programs and therapies that promote social, emotional and academic development for children with special needs." In the fall of 2012 they engaged in a program evaluation that in many respects resembles a needs assessment in order to explore and improve aspects of their functioning. Through preliminary evaluation processes, including dialogue with CHILD's Leadership Team and a survey of internal stakeholders, an area of interest in student mental health was uncovered and an initial evaluation question emerged: "How does CHILD claim expertise, particularly in the area of mental health?" Historically, evidence of CHILD's impact in this regard has been largely anecdotal. Aside from a limited collection of behavioral data pertaining largely to IEP goals and objectives, CHILD does not track mental health, or long-term student outcomes. As a program interested in its own claims to "expertise," members of the Leadership Team and other stakeholders have called for improved data collection in this regard. This program evaluation is an attempt to understand the types of data that would be most useful to CHILD's interest in expertise and then design a program for tracking this data. Bronfenbrenner's (1994) ecological model was used as a framework for guiding data collection, the results of which are synthesized and integrated into a series of recommendations constituting the final results of the project. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and Ohio Link ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/etd
Bill Heusler, Psy.D. (Committee Chair)
Steven Curtis, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Shamsah Ebrahim, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
196 p.
Clinical Psychology; Educational Evaluation; Educational Psychology; Psychology
Program Evaluation; Education; Special Education; Tracking Outcomes; Measuring Outcomes; Mental Health; Mental Health Outcomes; Student Mental Health; Therapeutic School; Therapeutic Day School

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  • Bittner, O. J. (2015). Designing a Data-Tracking System for a Private Therapeutic Day School [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1448896028

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bittner, Olin. Designing a Data-Tracking System for a Private Therapeutic Day School . 2015. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1448896028.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bittner, Olin. "Designing a Data-Tracking System for a Private Therapeutic Day School ." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1448896028

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