Blumberg Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education

Project for responsive educational systems

Collaborative Problem Solving: Publications and Research Briefs

General Description
This page contains references, writings, and research briefs on Creative Problem Solving (CPS) and CPS for General Education Intervention (GEI) school based teams.

All of these documents are in PDF format and require "Adobe Acrobat Reader" to read the file.  If you do not have this program on your computer, a free copy and installation instructions may be downloaded from http://www.indstate.edu/oit1/readers/acrobat/

Printed copies of the PDF files are available through the Blumberg Center - 812-237-2830.

*  Publications
* Research Briefs

Publications

These links access publications/manuscripts authored by professionals associated with the Blumberg Center.

* Measuring Success: Survey Shows How CPS Impacts Indiana
By Tamyra Freeman, Priscilla Wolfe, Bill Littlejohn and Nancy Mayfield
(Lead article in the Fall 2001 newsletter "Communique" of the Creative Problem Solving Group, Inc.)
* Executive Summary - December 2000 - Creative Problem Solving Impacts Indiana:
Results from a Study of Creative Problem Solving Program Participants 1994-1999
(PDF version)
* Legal Issues
By Dr. Stephen Davis, Consultant for the Indiana Department of Education
(Presentation summarized by Kenneth Walker - November 2002)
(PDF version)
* Creative Problem Solving and Indiana's General Education Intervention Teams
By Kenneth Walker, Michael Bahr, Bonnie Buddle, William Littlejohn and Maurice Miller
(A report to Robert Marra, Associate Superintendent, Indiana Department of Education - April 2002)
(PDF version)
* General Education Intervention: Elementary school teams incorporate Creative Problem Solving
(Lead article in the December 2001 issue of Creative Problem Solving News with articles by Angela McKinney and Jennifer Grimes.)
(PDF version)
* Creative Problem Solving Leads to Student Success
By Tamyra Freeman, Priscilla Wolfe, Bill Littlejohn and Nancy Mayfield
(Published in Creative Learning Today, Volume 10, Number 3, July-September 2001)
(PDF version)

Research Briefs

These links access research briefs authored by professionals associated with the Blumberg Center.

* CPS for GEI Team Accomplishment Survey Report 2003-2004
By Kenneth Walker, Ph.D.
(During the academic year 2003-2004 the facilitators of teams trained in the CPS for GEI methods in 20 Indiana elementary schools were asked to record information on the children referred to the teams and to track them on certain data. This study summarizes characteristics of the children and describes the way in which the CPS for GEI process was implemented. Since fewer responses were received than anticipated, generalizations from this study should be limited.)
(PDF version)
* CPS for GEI Team Effectiveness Survey Report 2003-2004
By Jerry Jenkins, Ph.D.
(During the academic year 2003-2004 participants from 11 districts and independent schools that participated in the (CPS for GEI) training were asked to record demographic data. In addition, they responded to a series of questions regarding the effectiveness of their team before and after CPS for GEI training. Although the results of the analysis reflected positively on the CPS for GEI process, since fewer responses were received than anticipated, generalizations from this study should be limited.)
(PDF version)
* CPS for GEI District Trainer and School-Based Team Focus Group Report,
February 2004
By Eric M. Hampton, Ph.D.
(This is a 6-page Executive Summary of a 78-page full report on the focus group interviews. The full report is available through the Blumberg Center - 812-237-2830.)
(PDF version)
* CPS for GEI District Trainer Focus Group Report, March 2003
By Eric M. Hampton, Ph.D.
(This is a 3-page Executive Summary of a 25-page full report on the focus group interviews. The full report is available through the Blumberg Center - 812-237-2830.)
(PDF version)
* Creative Problem Solving for General Education Intervention Teams, 2002-2003
By Michael Bahr, Jennifer Sears, Esther Anderson and Kenneth Walker
(The 12 school based GEI teams not trained in the 2001 - 2002 school year, which served as the untrained control teams in the previous study, received CPS for GEI training in the fall of the 2002 - 2003 school year. This study investigates the team ratings of their effectiveness and the impact of CPS training.)
(PDF version)
* Data from the CPS for GEI Facilitators' Logs, Spring 2002
By Kenneth Walker, Esther Anderson, Michael Bahr, Bonnie Buddle, Tamyra Freeman, Maurice Miller and Jennifer Sears
(Facilitators of the teams that were CPS for GEI trained in the 2001 - 2002 school year were asked to compile information following every team meeting in the Spring of 2002. They tallied information on the characteristics of the referred children and the characteristics of each session as well as their ratings of the effectiveness of the CPS process during that session.)
(PDF version)
* Creative Problem Solving for GEI Evaluation Outcomes 2001-2002
By Michael Bahr, Jennifer Sears, Esther Anderson, Bonnie Buddle, Tamyra Freeman, Maurice Miller and Kenneth Walker
(Data are presented on 12 CPS-trained and 12 non-CPS-trained teams over one school year. Included are their ratings of the effectiveness of their team.)
(PDF version)
* Data on CPS for GEI Team Members, 1999-2002
By Kenneth Walker, Esther Anderson, Michael Bahr, Bonnie Buddle, Tamyra Freeman, Maurice Miller and Jennifer Sears
(This report summarizes information on the professional identities of the CPS for GEI team members trained over a 3-year period and the sizes of the GEI teams.)
(PDF version)


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