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Evidence supporting the influence of co-teaching for increasing student performance is inconclusive and most studies have used pre/posttest designs, discipline records, attendance and course grades as dependent measures for examining outcomes. It also is important to compare student performance in co-taught and solo-taught settings, in particular by direct observation of how students respond to teaching practices in classrooms. The purpose of this exploratory observational study was to investigate levels of student engagement, occurrence of challenging behaviors and verbal interactions for 9 students with high-incidence disabilities in co-taught and solo-taught settings. In addition the supports classroom teachers provided were examined. Over 2300 minutes or 7022 intervals of observation data were gathered on the target students using the Student Observation Instrument (SOI), a web-based observation tool. 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