Component analysis of behavioral skills training

Item

Title
Component analysis of behavioral skills training
Identifier
d_2009_2013:3dc631bb1e31:10807
identifier
11090
Creator
Ward-Horner, John Claude,
Contributor
Peter Sturmey
Date
2011
Language
English
Publisher
City University of New York.
Subject
Behavioral psychology | Autism | Behavioral Skills Training | Component Analysis | Functional Analysis | Staff Training
Abstract
Few studies have conducted a component analysis of behavioral skills training (BST) and none have evaluated the independent effects of all components of BST. Therefore, the purpose of this experiment was to conduct a component analysis of behavioral skills training (BST) in the context of training teachers to conduct functional analyses. An alternating-treatments design was used to evaluate the components of BST. Prior to baseline, teachers reviewed written instructions of the functional analysis conditions. Following baseline, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback training occurred independently during the first training phase and in combination during subsequent phases. Rehearsal was ineffective at improving teachers' performance. Feedback was effective at improving the performance of all teachers. Modeling was less effective than feedback, such that improvements only occurred for some teachers and some functional analysis responses. Thus, feedback and to a lesser extent modeling are the effective and perhaps necessary components of BST.
Type
dissertation
Source
2009_2013.csv
degree
Ph.D.
Program
Psychology