Data Collection Methods: How Material Modifications Influence Behavior belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Data Collection Methods: How Material Modifications Influence Behavior, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →ABA practitioners collect data regularly as an integral part of services. Data are used to make programming decisions and to maximize the efficiency of intervention. Although ABA practitioners are trained to select appropriate data collection methods to match the relevant dimensions of behavior, little is known about how the modification of these data collection methods influence the collectors' behavior. This symposium includes data-based studies in which the effects of varied data collection materials and methods impacted the data and collector's behavior. The first study shows how collecting continuous versus discontinuous data influences the number of learning trials the practitioner presents to the learner. The second study, shows how paper and pencil versus electronic data collection systems influence number of learning trials the practitioner presents. The third study shows how paper and pencil versus electronic data collection systems influences the behavior of survey respondents. The final study shows what impact the written BIP format has on clinician fidelity.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Meghan is the Director of Research Operations at Easterseals Southern California, and an adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and National University. Meghan is also the founder and CEO of Evoke Resolutions, an ABA Health, Sports, & Fitness Consultation company. Her primary areas of research and clinical work include Organizational Behavior Management topics including supervision and staff retention, Health, Sports, & Fitness interventions, specifically sports performance, and behavioral consultation with adults with intellectual disabilities living in residential care. Meghan’s studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as JOBM, and Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. She has also presented her work at numerous conferences including ABAI: Autism, ABAI: National, ABAI: International, WIBA, OCALI, and the American Psychological Association.
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