Renee Speight Data-verified

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Assistant Professor of Special Education

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-02

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3 h-index 11 pubs 33 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Renee Speight's research focuses on improving classroom management and behavior support strategies, particularly for secondary students and in rural educational settings. Her work investigates the effectiveness of specific interventions, such as Positive Behavior Supports and the CW-FIT strategy, in enhancing student engagement and appropriate behavior. Speight also explores professional development models designed to enhance educators' implementation quality of classroom management practices. Additionally, her research examines interprofessional collaboration in teacher preparation programs, aiming to integrate diverse fields like elementary education, special education, and communication sciences and disorders. She has published on leveraging arts integration to enhance teacher preparation and has explored lessons learned through interprofessional education initiatives. Speight has 11 publications with an h-index of 3 and 32 citations. She collaborates with researchers including Peggy Schaefer Whitby and Johanna Thomas at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 11
  • Citations: 33

Selected Publications

  • Supporting rural educators’ implementation quality of classroom management practices: A professional development study (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of CW-FIT on Student Appropriately Engaged Behavior in Two Co-Taught Middle School Classrooms (2025)
  • Lessons learned through interprofessional education: exploring collaboration with elementary education, special education and communication sciences and disorders pre-service professionals (2024)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Improving Secondary Student Classroom Behavior With an IGC (2023)
  • Teaming for Transition (2022)
  • Publisher Correction: Effects of a Behavior Management Strategy, CW‑FIT, on High School Student and Teacher Behavior (2022)
  • Leveraging Positive Behavior Supports to Improve Engagement in Virtual Settings (2021)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of a Behavior Management Strategy, CW-FIT, on High School Student and Teacher Behavior (2021)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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