A behavior and an intervention and indicate which design you could implement to determine the validity of the intervention.

 

Select a behavior and an intervention and indicate which design you could implement to determine the validity of the intervention. You should not include a peer reviewed journal article. Instead, please answer the following questions regarding your own research idea to prepare for the last portion of your final project:

Who would your participant(s) be? Do not enter any identifying information. For example you may have "Student A was a 14-year old girl diagnosed with ADHD" or "Participant was an 8-year old boy at the Adult Day Treatment Program" (1 point)
What behavior will you measure? (2 points)
What is your intervention? It must be an ABA intervention. (2 points)
What is your experimental question? (5 points)
What design are you using? Why? You must select a design that was covered in our course. If you select any other design, you will not earn points on this discussion post. (5 points)
How will you know your intervention was successful (hypothetically)? Here you will have to sketch (but not submit) what your ideal graph should look like and be sure to describe the wanted descriptions of the visual analysis. For example, trend, level, variability, and latency to change. (5 points)

 

Sample Answer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who would your participant(s) be? Participant 1 was an 8-year-old boy diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) attending a specialized elementary school program. Participant 2 was a 10-year-old girl diagnosed with ASD attending the same specialized elementary school program.

What behavior will you measure? The behavior measured will be the frequency of off-task behavior during independent desk work time in the classroom. Off-task behavior is operationally defined as any instance where the participant is not engaging with the assigned desk work material (e.g., looking around the room, playing with objects not related to the task, talking to peers unrelated to the task, drawing unrelated pictures) for longer than 5 consecutive seconds. Measurements will be taken during a 15-minute interval occurring twice daily (morning and afternoon desk work sessions), using momentary time sampling every 30 seconds (10 observations per 15-minute interval).