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Is there evidence of a cause-effect or functional relationship?
In larger scale research, random assignment to control and experimental groups is used to help with causal arguments. In single case designs, replication is used, such as in an A-B-A-B design
the degree that the the intervention is actually the factor influencing the beahvior change. |
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| The degree to which the research conclusions would hold for other persons in other places and at another time. |
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| The best available approximation of the truth of a given proposition, inference, or conclusion |
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It means that the simplest of two or more competing theories is preferable and that an explanation for unknown phenomenon should first be attempted in terms of what is already known. |
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| A model of decision making using prevention and increasing intensity of interventions usually in 3 tiers (universal, targeted, intensive) |
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| The variable being manipulated |
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| The variable that is effected by the independent variable |
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| The estimation of effectiveness, appropriateness, and importance various people experience in relation to particular intervention. |
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| The degree to which study conclusions are valid for members of the population other than study sample. |
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| Three levels of intervention |
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| Intensive intervention, Strategic/ Targic intervention, Prevention & Universal |
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| Scientific- Practioner Model |
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Role 1: Active consumer of research
Role 2: Evaluator of own interventions
Role 3: Practioner as research
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| Single case design basics |
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Socially important situation or condition
baseline measurement in situation using defined behavior with agreement between observers
Introduc intervention - most pormising and best alternative
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the methodological strategies used to monitor and enhance the reliability and validity of behavioral interventions.
(treatment fidelity, intervention fidelity, implementation reliability) |
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