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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Renee Speight

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Assistant Professor of Special Education

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 12 pubs 36 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Renee Speight's research focuses on improving classroom management strategies and teacher preparation, particularly for educators in rural settings. Her work investigates the effectiveness of behavior management techniques, such as CW-FIT, in enhancing student engagement and behavior in various educational contexts, including virtual and co-taught classrooms. Speight also explores how interprofessional education and collaboration with other disciplines, like elementary education and communication sciences, can strengthen teacher preparation programs.

Her publications examine the implementation quality of classroom management practices and the integration of arts into teacher education. Speight's scholarship also addresses supporting educators in implementing proactive classroom management strategies, with a recent study focusing on professional development for rural educators. She has a notable publication history in this area, with several papers published in 2021 and 2023-2025. Speight collaborates with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on her research endeavors.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 12
  • Citations: 36

Selected Publications

  • Evaluation of the Effects of CW-FIT MS: A Study of Novice Teacher Implementation (2026)
    Journal of Behavioral Education DOI OpenAlex
  • Supporting rural educators’ implementation quality of classroom management practices: A professional development study (2025)
    Teaching and Teacher Education 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of CW-FIT on Student Appropriately Engaged Behavior in Two Co-Taught Middle School Classrooms (2025)
    Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Lessons learned through interprofessional education: exploring collaboration with elementary education, special education and communication sciences and disorders pre-service professionals (2024)
    School-University Partnerships 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Improving Secondary Student Classroom Behavior With an IGC (2023)
    Teaching Exceptional Children DOI OpenAlex
  • Teaming for Transition (2022)
    Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series DOI OpenAlex
  • Publisher Correction: Effects of a Behavior Management Strategy, CW‑FIT, on High School Student and Teacher Behavior (2022)
    Journal of Behavioral Education DOI OpenAlex
  • Leveraging Positive Behavior Supports to Improve Engagement in Virtual Settings (2021)
    Journal of Special Education Technology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of a Behavior Management Strategy, CW-FIT, on High School Student and Teacher Behavior (2021)
    Journal of Behavioral Education 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of CW-FIT on Student and Teacher Behavior in a Middle School (2020)
    Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions 17 citations DOI OpenAlex

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