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Signature Assignment

EDUU 694: Writing and reporting single case design research

Assignment Description: Your signature assignment for this class is a proposed SCDR study with hypothetical subject/s, data and interpretation. You will write the methods for your study, enter hypothetical data, interpret and report those data in graphs and narrative form. Finally, you will reflect on the rigor of your study and evaluate the methods and reporting of results through the lens of Kratchowil et al. (2013). Remember to use a title page and follow APA guidelines for a research study.

You may use the headings below as a template. Replace the bullets with APA formatted headings:

Part 1: Methods

Introduction

Write a brief introductory paragraph that links back to your research question. Your introduction should clearly and specifically state the methodology and design. Methodology would be Single Case Design. Research design would be one of the following: Multiple baseline across (subjects/activities/settings), Multiple Probe across (subjects/activities/settings), Reversal design, Withdrawal design, Multiple Component, Alternative Treatment, Changing Criteria.

Subjects (Hypothetical)

· Describe your subject/s using pseudonyms or initials. (Give rich description of your subjects. This helps with external validity. Make sure your subject description does not “overshare” information not relevant to the study, or expose bias or subjectivity)

· Criteria for inclusion and exclusion

· Who are they/it?

Setting

Where does your research take place? Describe the setting and any relevant information such as demographic information, geographic local, distinguishing features.

Independent Variable:

· What is your intervention / treatment / curriculum (e.g., What are you manipulating?) If it is a treatment of treatment package, thoroughly describe it but don’t yet go into the procedures. The specificity with which you write your IV is important to internal validity. It should be easily understood by an informed reader. Be specific but concise. This is what your literature review should have led you to.

Dependent Variable:

· What is the behavior or skill you are changing or teaching? How are you operationally defining that behavior or skill. Be specific (e.g., time on task, phonemic awareness, Mean length of word utterance, Social initiations with peers, SIB). This is the focus behavior from your literature review.

Measures:

· What is the dimension/s of the behavior that you are going to measure (e.g., duration, frequency, latency, rate, intensity)? Will you also be looking at artifacts (e.g., completed assignments)? Direct measurement is preferred in ABA.

· How will you be measuring? (e.g., time sample, event recording, stopwatch, video recording, daily record review?)

· Who will measure?

· How are you ensuring the accuracy, validity and reliability of the measure?

· Training others to collect the data?

· What method/ percentage of overlap will you use for IOA? (reliability, critical for internal validity)

· Procedures

· Describe the steps of your intervention from baseline until completion. This section may be a sequential bulleted list. It should read like a recipe for those wanting to replicate your study.

· Ethical considerations

· What are the ethical considerations for your research. Refer to the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.

Part 2: Results of the Research

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If you were to replicate this study, what would you do the same and what would you do differently based on what you learned?