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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Alternating treatments"”.
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Can Teaching Flexible Relational Responding Result in Improved Ability Scores in Children with Diagnosed Autism?
… 2011).The current study extends this by using an alternating treatments design which is not subject to problematic sequence effects that may result with multiple baseline design. Cassidy, Roche, & Hayes, (2011) found that a teaching complex forms of relational responding resulted in significant …
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Some Collateral Effects of Four Academic Reinforcement Regimes
A multielement baseline, or alternating treatments design, was used to examine social collateral effects of non-contingent reinforcement, individualized reinforcement, group consequation and competitive reinforcement for academic performance. Four elementary school students selected by their …
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A Comparison of Two Function-Based Interventions: NCR vs. DRO in a Preschool Classroom
… procedures, which were examined with an alternating treatments design. This study examined (1) relative differences in the efficacy of NCR and DRO in decreasing problem behaviors in preschool children, (2) relative differences in the efficacy of NCR and DRO in increasing appropriate …
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
… interactions of two young children with ASD. An alternating treatments design across behaviors was used with initial baseline sessions to assess the effects of CS and CL training. Results indicated that this analysis and unit of measure may be useful for teaching children with ASD to sustain …
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Examining the use of Cognitive Defusion Exercises to Treat High-Order Repetitive and Restrictive Behaviors Displayed by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… posttreatment follow up. Experiment II used an alternating treatments design to compare cognitive defusion exercise and exposure to a control exercise and exposure. 3 out of 4 participants displayed larger and quicker decreases in problem behavior with the cognitive defusion exercise condition …
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Evaluating the Effects of an Independent versus Interdependent Reinforcement Contingency on Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise
… specific praise in the classroom setting. An alternating treatments design was used to rapidly evaluate the effects of both an independent and interdependent paired contingency to increase frequency of behavior specific praise delivery. Four general education elementary school teachers and …
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The Effects of Classroom Response Systems on Student Learning and Engagement
… it is the first known study of CRSs that used an alternating treatments design to improve the reliability of the findings. The study also assessed the acceptability of the technology. Quiz results did not support claims that that students learn more when using CRSs, but acceptability responses …
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Comparison of TAGteach Error-Correction Procedures to Teach Beginner Yoga Poses to Novice Adult Practitioners
… (Persicke, Jackson, & Adams, 2014). An adapted alternating treatments design was used to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of the standard TAGteach error-correction procedure and a modified TAGteach error-correction procedure to teach four novice adult yoga practitioners beginner yoga …
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A Comparison of the Effects of a Function-Based Intervention to a Non-Function-Based Intervention to Address Problem Behaviors in Preschoolers
… compared to a token economy intervention in an Alternating Treatments Design. Results indicated that the function-based intervention was more effective for two of the three participants and equally effective for the third participant. These results suggest that the treatment utility of …
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Utilizing students as behavior change agents : an example using check-in/check-out
… interventionists in a CICO framework using an alternating treatments design.
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The efficacy of assisted reading as a strategy for facilitating the reading success of adult disabled readers
… language-experience texts in a single-subject Alternating Treatments Design. The dependent measures were sight words learned, miscues, and achievement in word recognition and comprehension. The results indicated that, under the treatments, each participant achieved modest gains in general word …
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Generalization of Social Skills Training on Disruptive Classroom Behavior
… in the classroom. The present study used an alternating treatments design to compare social skills training (SST) alone with three teacher-facilitated behavioral strategies to promote generalization. These included: 1) brief direct instruction of social skills with a visual prompt (i.e., …
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The Effects of DRO and DRA for Increasing Academic Engagement and Decreasing Disruptive Behavior of Elementary Students in General Education Classrooms
… of DRO and DRA was evaluated using an alternating treatments design (ATD). Results suggest that both DRO and DRA are effective for decreasing problem behavior and increasing academic engagement, with DRO being more effective for one participant and DRA being more effective for the …
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Examination of the Impact of Students' Skill Levels on the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Interventions for Improving Mathematics Fluency
… baseline across subjects design with an embedded alternating treatments design to examine the impact of students’ instructional level on the effectiveness of various interventions (fluency, peer tutoring, and combined, which included both performance feedback and peer tutoring) on the fluency …
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Identification of Preference Categories
… then utilized during a reinforcer assessment. An alternating treatments design with an initial baseline and final best treatment phase was implemented to assess the comparative effectiveness of the tested versus untested stimuli to act as reinforcers. The reinforcer assessment involved …
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Evaluating activity presentation formats and the amount of interactions to increase activity engagement in older adults with Alzheimer's disease
… a nursing home. Three experiments, each using an alternating treatments design, were conducted. Experiment 1 compared two sets of activities (i.e., standard and novel) on engagement. The set of activities that produced the highest mean percentage of engagement (novel activities) was used …
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The influence a digital screen has on the learning process, for students with Autism spectrum disorder
… spectrum disorder, was given a randomized, alternating treatments design, of paper (flash cards) or digital screen (iPad) to use in learning and testing in a vocabulary activity of matching words with their definitions. The classroom data collected for this vocabulary matching is done over …
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Implementation of Educational Games-based Instruction for Improving Sight Word Recognition
… used a single subject multi-element design with alternating treatments research design to examine the effectiveness of two strategies for teaching new sight words to students performing below grade level in sight word recognition and to determine student preferences for each condition Five first …
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Recall Reading Intervention for Children in Preschool and Kindergarten with Moderate to Severe Language Delays
… design in multiple baseline Study (n=6) and an alternating baseline design in Alternating Treatments Study (n=2). During the intervention, the researchers read a book with the child and asked the child a completion, open-ended, wh-, wh-inference, or emotion identification question after each …
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The Effects of the Social Listener Reinforcement Protocol on the Audience Control of Stereotypy and Social Operants for Students with Developmental Delays
In a within-subjects alternating treatments design, I tested for the presence of audience control in four participants' frequency of stereotypy in a self-contained special education setting versus a general education setting. Three students with autism, and one student diagnosed with an emotional …
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