Renee Speight

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Assistant Professor of Special Education

University of Arkansas

4 h-index 14 pubs 40 cited

Research Areas

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Renee Speight's research focuses on classroom management strategies and teacher preparation. Her work investigates the impact of interventions like the "CW-FIT" (Check-In, Follow-Up, and Intervention Tracking) strategy on student and teacher behavior in middle and high school settings. Speight has also explored methods for supporting rural educators in implementing classroom management practices and examined the role of interprofessional education in preparing pre-service teachers across special education, elementary education, and communication sciences and disorders.

Her publications include studies on the effectiveness of CW-FIT in co-taught classrooms and with novice teachers, as well as research on leveraging positive behavior supports in virtual learning environments. Speight also contributes to the literature on integrating arts into teacher preparation and fostering collaboration among educators. She has an h-index of 4 with 40 citations across 14 publications.

Metrics

h-index: 4
Publications: 14
Citations: 40

Positions

Assistant Professor of Special Education 2023–present

University of Arkansas Department of Curriculum and Instruction ORCID

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 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Impact of CW-FIT on Student and Teacher Behavior in a Middle School (2020)

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions 19 citations DOI OpenAlex