Intervention - UDM v3.0

The Intervention domain describes educational interventions and, more generally, supplemental education content aimed at altering behavior or improving the understanding of a concept. Interventions span from in-classroom teaching methods to formal out-of-class intervention programs.

Key Entities

This domain contains:

The InterventionPrescription entity, which describes an activity intended to address a specific problem or diagnosis. It identifies the kinds of students targeted and how the intervention should be delivered.
The Intervention entity, which is a specific implementation of an instructional approach, outlined in an InterventionPrescription entity, with one or more students in a Cohort entity. Interventions may be one-time actions or recurring actions over time. Interventions typically have assigned staff.
An AttendanceEvent entity which captures attendance and participation for interventions.
A StudentInterventionAssociation entity, which links students to interventions in which they participate. The effectiveness of an intervention for a given student is also captured. Data about a formal InterventionStudy entity for an InterventionPrescription entity may also be associated.

Key Concepts

The key concepts include the following:

The InterventionPrescription entity is a course of action designated by appropriate personnel to remedy an academic or behavioral issue, while the Intervention entity is the resulting action requiring participation by the student. In other words, the InterventionPrescription entity is the noun and the Intervention entity is the verb.
Interventions can be tied to a Cohort entity, but only through the StudentInterventionAssociation entity.
EducationContent metadata may be linked to InterventionPrescriptions entities and/or Interventions entities. The EducationContent entity includes descriptive information about the content conforming to the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI).¹

Model Reference

This section contains reference information for the Intervention domain model.

Intervention Model Entities

Name	Description
Cohort	This entity represents any type of list of designated students for tracking, analysis, or intervention.
EducationContent	This entity represents materials for students or teachers that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and more. Education content includes full courses, course materials, modules, intervention descriptions, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
EducationOrganization	This entity represents any public or private institution, organization, or agency that provides instructional or support services to students or staff at any level.
EducationOrganizationInterventionPrescriptionAssociation	This association indicates interventions made available by an education organization. Often, a district-level education organization purchases a set of intervention prescriptions and makes them available to its schools for use on demand.
Intervention	An implementation of an instructional approach focusing on the specific techniques and materials used to teach a given subject.
InterventionPrescription	This entity represents a formal prescription of an instructional approach focusing on the specific techniques and materials used to teach a given subject. This can be prescribed by academic research, an interventions vendor, or another entity.
InterventionStudy	An experimental or quasi-experimental study of an intervention technique.
Staff	This entity represents an individual who performs specified activities for any public or private education institution or agency that provides instructional and/or support services to students or staff at the early childhood level through high school completion. For example, this includes: 1. An "employee" who performs services under the direction of the employing institution or agency is compensated for such services by the employer and is eligible for employee benefits and wage or salary tax withholdings 2. A "contractor" or "consultant" who performs services for an agreed upon fee or an employee of a management service contracted to work on site 3. A "volunteer" who performs services on a voluntary and uncompensated basis 4. An in-kind service provider 5. An independent contractor or businessperson working at a school site.
Student	This entity represents an individual for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in an early childhood, elementary, or secondary educational program under the jurisdiction of a school, education agency or other institution or program. A student is a person who has been enrolled in a school or other educational institution.
StudentCohortAssociation	This association represents the Cohort(s) for which a student is designated.
StudentInterventionAssociation	This association indicates the students participating in an intervention.
StudentInterventionAttendanceEvent	This event entity represents the recording of whether a student is in attendance for an intervention service.

Intervention Model