Behavioral Skills Training To Train Teachers To Conduct A Brief Functional Analysis

Teachers are required to be a part of behavioral assessments for children in special education classrooms. Most teachers lack the tools needed to specifically address each child’s individual need appropriately. To assist with this, a brief functional analysis was taught to teachers using behavioral skill training. Using written instructions, role-play, modeling and immediate feedback each of the teachers were taught how to conduct a brief functional analysis. While conducting this, the teachers were able to learn how to identify which function of behavior was providing enough reinforcement to maintain the challenging behaviors. Behavioral skills training was conducted with the experimenter and the generalization portion was conducted with a child from the classroom. Once the challenging behavior was identified, immediate feedback was provided and examples given. A multiple probe design across teachers was used to compare their performance from beginning of the study to the end during generalization.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Applied Behavior Analysis

Year

2018

Authors dc:creator

• O'Connor, Rachel
• O'Connor, Rachel E

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sadie Lovett
• Richard Marsicano
• Sara Bender

• Education
• Psychology
• Teacher Education and Professional Development
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/895

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1870