SPED 669.Graphing and Visual Analysis Project
SPED 669.Graphing and Visual Analysis Project
You are a consulting BCBA brought into a school district to provide and Independent FBA for a student who may be placed out of district due to their patterns of problem behavior. The district has attempted a variety of interventions and collected copious data, but there have been minimal improvements and even the occurrence of new problem behaviors more recently. As part of your independent FBA you want to complete a thorough records review. This should include an analysis and summary of the existing interventions and data sets.
For this project I want you to review the data and information below and develop a summative narrative a visual summary of past interventions. This will include an analysis of the interventions utilized, the effects on the environment and the behavior changes observed by the student themselves.
Data set 1.
Weekly data for first quarter (nine weeks)
Frequency of refusal attemptsIntervention elements
Week 1: 8Planned ignoring
Week 2: 7 Planned ignoring
Week 3: 6Planned ignoring
Week 4: 12Contingent attention and redirection
Week 5: 14Contingent attention and redirection
Week 6: 14Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started
Week 7: 16Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started
Week 8: 15 Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started
* Isolated hitting attempts
when para represents tasks.
Week 9: 13 Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started
*** Parent reported that a psychotropic medicine change was completed during Week 8 (due to increased refusal, per parent report), this was unchanged over the remainder of the school year.
Partial weekly data for second quarter
Week 10: 14 Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started
Week 11:18Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started* Removal from room to
work one to one with Para
Week 12: 19Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started* Removal from room to
work one to one with Para
* Isolated hitting attempts
when para represents tasks.
* Para left position, new para
assigned
Week 13: 17Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started* Removal from room to
work one to one with Para
Week 14: 16Contingent attention and redirection
* One to one support started* Removal from room to
work one to one with Para
Data Set 2
Academic performance (% of tasks completed sufficiently, weekly averages) over first two quarters of fall semester
Reading (small group)Social Skills Group Chorus
Week 1768556
Week 28289 45
Week 3698249
Week 4566852
Week 5455945
Week 6516235
Week 7415132
Week 8446341
Week 9505843
Week 10566052
Week 11374856
Week 12253253
Week 13343854
Week 14394152
Based on the data provided please address the following questions
Develop and summary graph of the data presented. (more than one graph is expected, but be sure your graphs complement one another in terms of time frames, phase changes and intervention labels)
Please be sure to include all relevant conventions (see elements of graphs outlined in Ch 6 in Cooper)
Again, include phase change lines and specific, descriptive labels for the interventions that were implemented over the first and second quarters of the school year. Remember to present your visual summaries (aka. Graphs) in a manner that each data set (refusal and % of participation) complement one another.
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Identify the potential critical environmental or instructional variables that appear to be affecting the student’s frequencies of refusal and academic performance. Listing them with short descriptors is sufficient
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Describe (in words) the potential functional relations being observed within this data set. What functions, needs or skill deficits appear to be at play here? Remember no data set or context is perfectly consistent, be sure explore all potential functional relations that might be worthy of exploring as you continue you your assessment. Use the materials in the latter half (slides 27-43) of slides specifically as you complete this question
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Please complete your graphing in EXCEL and your narratives in WORD. You can then cut and paste the graphs into your word doc, then save it as a PDF (to ensure consistent formatting when submitting)
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Total _____ / 50
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