534 M8 Project

ABA 534: M8 Project:

This week for your project you will learn how to make a multiple-treatment graph with EXCEL and then design your own graphs from data provided in scenarios using a multiple-treatment design:

STEP 1: Now, you will learn how to make a multiple-treatment graph. Here is a video to walk you through the process.

Use link on M8 Project Assignment page for ALTERNATING TX GRAPH VIDEO

STEP 2: Next, create your own graphs demonstrating an alternating treatments design using the data from these scenarios:

Remember to include on your graphs: [REFER TO COOPER CHAPTER 6 PPS. 127-128)]

1. Horizontal axis

2. Vertical axis

3. Axis labels

4. Condition change lines

5. Condition labels

6. Data points and data path

7. Breaks in the lines that connect one data point to the next phase change

8. A figure caption containing your intervention method (the independent variable) and what you measured (the dependent variable)

SCENARIO 1:

Mr. Roberts has been assigned a class of primary students with autism. Seven-year-old Gary does not seem to be catching on to the concept of addition. Mr. Roberts wants to determine which of two approaches to the teaching of addition would be potentially most effective to use with Gary. The two approaches are: (1) use of “counting sets”, and (2) use of a number line. Design the graph to show an alternating treatments approach. You will need to make up data showing the percent correct on a curriculum-based measurement for addition for each of the treatments so that you can create a graph to display the baseline & alternating treatments.

SCENARIO 2:

Jessica, a BCBA working at a private day school, was called into a case. The student displayed significant challenging behavior including property destruction. Property destruction was defined as throwing items, swiping things off the desk or knocking over his desk. The behavior occurred regularly during the week but the team was not totally clear why the behaviors happened. As the BCBA, Jessica decided that a Functional Analysis (FA) would assist to determine the function of the behavior. Based on interviews with school staff and parents, Jessica planned an FA to assess the conditions of attention, escape and alone conditions. Jessica also wanted the control condition to be included as a comparison. The data below indicates challenging behavior recorded in each condition. Graph the FA based on the data provided below. Remember to randomize the conditions on your graph for the different conditions of the FA.

Sessions ->	1	2	3	4
Alone	0	0	0	0
Attention	1	2	1	1
Escape	3	6	5	8
Control/Play	0	1	0	0

Finally, upload your completed assignment.