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| Measuring behavior due to theoretical or research importance; may or may not be used for problem solving. Examples of everything a person does or sampling across persons. Examples: social behaviors, engagement, etc. |
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| Target variable selection |
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| Variables directly linked to altering problem situation |
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| Group of responses with the same function. May be ”lumped” in some definitions (e.g., various social skills) |
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| A way to achieve consistency & improve selection and interventions; a decision rule is an agreement or plan to carefully try an intervention for a set time (or number of trials, etc.) for student or group to see what changes in plans may be needed based on the data. |
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| Based on chance; can be used in assignment of conditions |
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| Planned, such as each condition precedes and follows another (Kennedy) |
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| Randomization in single case design |
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| Example: which condition to start first in MBL or multi-element design? Kennedy: fixed sequences may be preferred to study interaction effects, can be replicated |
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| a) real, culturally significance situations; (b) Experiences of participants are accurately transmitted to researcher; (c) leads to desired outcomes without unnecessarily disrupting environments; (d) analysis of side effects and longer time periods (Neisser; Bronfrenbrenner, Witt& Martens, Willems) |
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| Non random, selecting information rich cases such as persons with unusual experiences, i.e., teachers with RTI experience |
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| accurate assumptions about environments and intervention outcomes & fewest disruptions |
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