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Skinner, Christopher H.; McClurg, Virginia; Crewdson, Margaret; Coleman, Mari Beth; Bennett, Jade; Fowler, Kristen; Killion, J. Brooke – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and describe why alternating treatments design (ATD) researchers should consider employing a no-treatment series during the alternating treatments phase. To identify limitations associated with excluding this design element, we obtained examples of ATD studies published in five school psychology journals…
Descriptors: Intervention, Design, Outcomes of Treatment, School Psychology
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Wright, Shelby; Skinner, Christopher H.; Crewdson, Margaret; Moore, Tara; McCurdy, Merilee; Coleman, Mari Beth; Rocconi, Louis M. – School Psychology, 2022
The present study was designed to extend research on supplementing social skills training (SST) with a Tootling intervention to enhance student performance of social skills in authentic social contexts. The Tootling intervention included an interdependent group contingency with randomly selected criteria, which involved the after-school class…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, At Risk Students, Elementary School Students
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Cazzell, Samantha; Skinner, Christopher H.; Ciancio, Dennis; Aspiranti, Kathleen; Watson, Tiffany; Taylor, Kala; McCurdy, Merilee; Skinner, Amy – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
A concurrent multiple-baseline across-tasks design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a computer flash-card sight-word recognition intervention with elementary-school students with intellectual disability. This intervention allowed the participants to self-determine each response interval and resulted in both participants acquiring…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intellectual Disability, Word Recognition, Visual Stimuli
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Moore, Tara C.; Alpers, Andrew J.; Rhyne, Rachael; Coleman, Mari Beth; Gordon, Jason R.; Daniels, Stephanie; Skinner, Christopher H.; Park, Yujeong – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2019
Two studies were conducted to examine the effects of a brief prompting intervention (verbal and visual reminder of classroom rules) to improve classroom behavior for an elementary student during small-group reading instruction in a special education classroom (Study 1) and for three high school students with mild disabilities in an inclusive…
Descriptors: Prompting, Intervention, Verbal Communication, Visual Stimuli
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Coles, Jeremy T.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Best, Tiffany L.; Wood, Allison; Luna, Elisa; Adcock, Wes – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2013
The authors used a withdrawal design to evaluate an intervention designed to decrease interruptions during small-group instruction in a Kindergarten class. A new rule was put into place; during teacher-led small-group instruction, those not in the small group were required to address questions to designated student leaders, as opposed to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Small Group Instruction, Kindergarten, Student Leadership
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Krohn, Katherine R.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Fuller, Emily J.; Greear, Corrine – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
A multiple baseline design across students was used to evaluate the effects of a taped numbers (TN) intervention on the number-identification accuracy of 4 kindergarten students. During TN, students attempted to name the numbers 0 through 9 on randomized lists before each number was provided via a tape player 2 s later. All 4 students showed…
Descriptors: Identification, Early Intervention, Kindergarten, Interpersonal Competence
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Pappas, Danielle N.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Skinner, Amy L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
An across-groups (classrooms), multiple-baseline design was used to investigate the effects of an interdependent group-oriented contingency on the Accelerated Reader (AR) performance of fourth-grade students. A total of 32 students in three classes participated. Before the study began, an independent group-oriented reward program was being applied…
Descriptors: Tests, Ability Grouping, Group Activities, Reading Programs
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Popkin, Joan; Skinner, Christopher H. – School Psychology Review, 2003
A modified multiple baseline across behaviors design was used to evaluate the effects of an interdependent group contingency program with randomly selected contingency components on the academic performance of an intact middle-school class serving five male students with serious emotional disturbance (SED). During the initial intervention phase,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Spelling, Emotional Disturbances, Academic Achievement