COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) for Improving Transition Outcomes for Students With ASD
This study is testing an intervention called COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) to help autistic students improve their goal-setting and achievement as they transition from high school. CAST involves students, caregivers, special education teachers, and pre-employment specialists working together to discuss post-high school goals, strengths, and challenges. The study aims to see if CAST can improve students' Individualized Education Program (IEP) progress and their success after high school. You might be able to join if you are an autistic student with an IEP (ages 16-99), a caregiver, a special education teacher, or a pre-employment specialist for an autistic student. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status.
- Study design
- This study is an interventional randomized controlled trial (RCT) that plans to enroll 297 participants. It will involve focus groups and a field trial before the main RCT.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants' postsecondary outcomes will be assessed 3 months and 1 year after high school graduation.
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COMPASS Across Settings (CAST) for Improving Transition Outcomes for Students With ASD
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Where it's being run
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What this trial measures
- Goal Attainment of IEP progress (Ruble et al., 2012; 2018).Outcomes are assessed at the end of the school year (9 months from start of intervention)
Goal attainment is assessed using psychometric equivalence goal attainment scaling (PET-GAS). Each goal attainment scale used a five-point rating scale: - 2 = student's present levels of performance, - 1 = progress, 0 = expected level of outcome by the end of the school year, +1 = somewhat more than expected, +2 = much more than expected. Half-scores were allowed when raters observed skill levels between two benchmarks. A score of zero represented improvement consistent with the actual description of the written IEP objective. PET-GAS pre- and post-treatment ratings are based on video demonstrations, work samples, and/or data collected by the teacher, caregiver, and/or job coach. In a prior study, two coders independently coded 65% of the goals at baseline and three coders independently rated 35% at final evaluation. Interrater agreement was .94 at baseline and .86 at final evaluation.
- Attainment of Postsecondary Goals (Ruble et al., 2019)Once a year (3 months following school graduation)
Postsecondary outcomes will be assessed by parent report of attainment in goals (such as enrolling in a training or college program and living independently; Ruble et al., 2019). IEP goal progress is based on a Likert-type scale questionnaire. Parents are asked to think of where the student was at the beginning of the school year with the specific skill (goal) and rate how much progress has been made to date using a five-point scale (1 'none at all' to 5 'a great deal') for each of the three monitored IEP goals. Because CAST prioritizes the development of goals that represent the pivotal areas of instruction for students with autism-social, communication, and learning/work behavior skills, similar goal domains are selected for the control group students for end of the year progress. In a prior study (Ruble et al., 2019), informants' judgments of goal progress were internally consistent across the three goals (alpha) for the parent measure (α = .81) and the teacher measure (α = .69).