This article describes an in-service training model that utilized demonstration center training and follow-up to trainee's work site to train special education teachers in a data-based educational approach. Specific training design and evaluation are detailed. Data demonstrated teachers acquired targeted information and skills during training, maintained the behaviors up to 28 weeks past training, and that students in trainee classrooms achieved greater skill gains than did a similar sample of children whose teachers had not been trained.
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