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Publication Date: 2007
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Teaching Elementary School Educators to Design, Implement, and Evaluate Functional Assessment-Based Interventions: Successes and Challenges
Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Spencer, Jane Lawrence; Kalberg, Jemma Robertson
Preventing School Failure, v51 n4 p35-46 Sum 2007
In this article, the authors present the findings of an intensive training series designed to train school-site teams in functional assessment procedures. They examined the extent to which participation in an intensive training series that included on-site follow-up was sufficient to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate a function-based intervention. The resulting interventions included the core components necessary (e.g., social validity, treatment integrity, and generalization and maintenance) to draw accurate conclusions about intervention outcome. The results of the study indicate that two teams were able to decrease problem behaviors and increase the use of functionally equivalent replacement behaviors. The authors discuss several limitations regarding the present study and provide thoughts on future efforts in this area. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Intervention, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Disorders, Clinical Psychology, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Formative Evaluation, Case Studies, Research Design, Instructional Development, Skill Development, Followup Studies, Professional Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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