Measurement - Exp Dsgn in ABA

Catalog description

This course will provide students with an understanding of experimental design and measurement procedures used in applied behavior analysis (ABA). This course will cover various experimental designs as they are used in ABA for both research and applied clinical settings, including withdrawal designs, alternating treatments, and multiple baselines. Students will learn the characteristics, strengths, and limitations of these types of designs. This course will also provide students with an in-depth understanding of behavior measurement and assessment, recording, graphing, and analyzing data while demonstrating experimental controls and intervention effects. Students will receive training on using various technologies in ABA for data collection, graphing, and analysis. Ethics relevant to single-case design research will also be discussed. Furthermore, students will learn to review and critically evaluate selected writings and research in ABA. Research design, developing a problem and hypothesis, reviewing literature, collecting data, and making recommendations on a topic in ABA to be researched will be addressed. A full research proposal is required of the student including both a written paper and proposal presentation at the end of the course.