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Shumate, Emily D.; Wills, Howard P. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2010
Although there is a growing body of literature on the use of functional analysis in schools, there is a need for more demonstrations of this technology being used during the course of typical instruction. In this study, we conducted functional analyses of disruptive and off-task behavior in a reading classroom setting for 3 participants of typical…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Reading Failure, Reinforcement
Athens, Elizabeth S.; Vollmer, Timothy R.; St. Peter Pipkin, Claire C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of percentile schedules as a method of quantifying the shaping procedure in an educational setting. We compared duration of task engagement during baseline measurements for 4 students to duration of task engagement during a percentile schedule. As a secondary purpose, we examined the influence on…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Referral, Intervention, Behavior Problems
Paramore, Nancy W.; Higbee, Thomas S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
Brief multiple-stimulus-without-replacement (MSWO) preference assessments were conducted with 3 adolescent boys with emotional-behavioral disorders in the context of their public school educational program. The reinforcing effects of stimuli identified as high, medium, and low preference were then evaluated using an alternating treatments design…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Behavior Disorders, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances
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Peterson, Stephanie M. Peck; Caniglia, Cyndi; Royster, Amy Jo; Macfarlane, Emily; Plowman, Kristen; Baird, Sally Jo; Wu, Nadia – Educational Psychology, 2005
This study evaluated the effects of choice making within functional communication training (FCT) to increase the task engagement of two participants with inappropriate behaviour. Pretreatment functional analyses indicated that both participants' inappropriate behaviour was maintained by escape. For one of the participants, inappropriate behaviour…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment
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Kamps, Debra; Wendland, Maura; Culpepper, Michelle – Behavioral Disorders, 2006
This study presents functional assessment data from two second-grade students with behavior and academic problems. Functional assessment procedures included interview, observation, functional analysis, and intervention. Functional analysis conditions, conducted by the classroom teacher, with coaching from the researcher, indicated multiple…
Descriptors: Intervention, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems