Christopher H Skinner - Böcker

Evaluate the effects of your interventions!Single-Subject Designs for School Psychologists shows how practitioners—educators, counselors, and support personnel—can contribute to the research base in their field by using single-subject methodologies to empirically validate the effects of their interventions. This book provides the research tools to tackle real world problems such as reducing transition times; improving reading, mathematics, and writing performance; increasing on-task behavior; and enhancing public speaking skills by presenting examples and analysis of single-subject design research methods. Specific methodologies include empirical case studies, withdrawal designs, multiple-probe designs, and nonconcurrent multiple-baseline designs.This book is a useful supplement for research-design classes being offered to education professionals. This text provides real world examples that demonstrate how practitioners who work with individual students or entire classes can conduct important intervention research—while at the same time educating. The applied interventions are designed to alter a variety of different unfavorable behaviors while reducing students’ and educators’ fear of research. This extensively referenced source includes helpful charts and tables to clearly illustrate research data.Single-Subject Designs for School Psychologists discusses:intervention evaluation and validation proceduresthe Timely Transitions Game—combining explicit timing with an interdependent group contingency program to decrease transition timesenhancing class-wide reading performance by using interdependent group contingencies with randomly selected criteria and paired readinga self-modeling intervention for high school students with public speaking anxietydelayed praise as a directive and its effectiveness on on-task behaviordecreasing transition times in a second grade classrooma description and demonstration of the nonconcurrent multiple-baseline designusing a low-tech self-managed time-delay intervention to increase division fact fluencySingle-Subject Designs for School Psychologists is a valuable how-to guide for school psychologists, special education teachers, behavioral consultants, school counselors, school social workers, support personnel, general education teachers, or for any helping professional wishing to contribute to the advancement of their field.

Evaluate the effects of your interventions!Single-Subject Designs for School Psychologists shows how practitioners—educators, counselors, and support personnel—can contribute to the research base in their field by using single-subject methodologies to empirically validate the effects of their interventions. This book provides the research tools to tackle real world problems such as reducing transition times; improving reading, mathematics, and writing performance; increasing on-task behavior; and enhancing public speaking skills by presenting examples and analysis of single-subject design research methods. Specific methodologies include empirical case studies, withdrawal designs, multiple-probe designs, and nonconcurrent multiple-baseline designs.This book is a useful supplement for research-design classes being offered to education professionals. This text provides real world examples that demonstrate how practitioners who work with individual students or entire classes can conduct important intervention research—while at the same time educating. The applied interventions are designed to alter a variety of different unfavorable behaviors while reducing students’ and educators’ fear of research. This extensively referenced source includes helpful charts and tables to clearly illustrate research data.Single-Subject Designs for School Psychologists discusses:intervention evaluation and validation proceduresthe Timely Transitions Game—combining explicit timing with an interdependent group contingency program to decrease transition timesenhancing class-wide reading performance by using interdependent group contingencies with randomly selected criteria and paired readinga self-modeling intervention for high school students with public speaking anxietydelayed praise as a directive and its effectiveness on on-task behaviordecreasing transition times in a second grade classrooma description and demonstration of the nonconcurrent multiple-baseline designusing a low-tech self-managed time-delay intervention to increase division fact fluencySingle-Subject Designs for School Psychologists is a valuable how-to guide for school psychologists, special education teachers, behavioral consultants, school counselors, school social workers, support personnel, general education teachers, or for any helping professional wishing to contribute to the advancement of their field.

This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Particular emphasis is placed on scientifically based practices that do not require major curricular change and can be applied with students of varying ages and ability levels. In a convenient large-size format for ease of photocopying, the book includes 17 reproducible assessment and instructional tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.New to This Edition:*Chapter on multi-tiered intervention delivery, plus additional discussion in other relevant chapters.*Chapter on interventions for English learners (ELs).*Chapter on vocabulary instruction, intervention, and assessment.*Additional graphing and data-analysis tools.*Coverage of new resources available through federal supports.This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

School psychologists are on the front lines in dealing with the most significant challenges facing children and the educational community today.