Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Public Instruction
Chapter PI 11 - Children With Disabilities
Section PI 11.02 - Definitions

(1) "Adequate fidelity" means the intervention has been applied in a manner highly consistent with its design, and was provided to the pupil at least 80 percent of the recommended number of weeks, sessions, and minutes per session.

(1m) "Child" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(3), Stats.

(2) "Child with a disability" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(5), Stats.

(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of public instruction.

(4) "Division" means the division for learning support, which is established under s. 15.373(1), Stats., and which has the authority granted under s. 115.77, Stats.

(4e) "Evidence-based interventions" means scientific, research-based interventions with substantial evidence of their effectiveness through multiple outcome evaluations.

(5) "Hearing officer" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(8), Stats.

(5m) "IDEA" means the individuals with disabilities education act under 20 USC 1400 et. seq.

(6) "Individualized education program" or "IEP" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(9), Stats.

(6m) "Intensive interventions" means interventions used with individual or small groups of pupils, focusing on single or small numbers of discrete skills, with substantial numbers of instructional minutes in addition to those provided to all pupils.

(6t) "Intervention" means the systematic use of a technique, program or practice designed to improve learning or performance in specific areas of pupil need.

(7) "Local education agency" or "LEA" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(10), Stats.

(8) "Parent" has the meaning defined under s. 115.76(12), Stats.

(9) "Probes" mean brief, direct measures of specific academic skills, with multiple equal or nearly equal forms, that are sensitive to small changes in pupil performance, and that provide reliable and valid measures of pupil performance during interventions.

(10) "Progress monitoring" means a scientifically-based practice to assess pupil response to interventions.

(11) "Rate of progress" during an intervention means the slope of the trend line using least squares regression on the baseline and all subsequent data points during each intervention.

(12) "Scientific, research-based" has the meaning under section 20 U.S.C. 7801(37).