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| Software Tools for Direct Observation: Hands on Learning of the Best Tools for BCBAs, Clinical Practitioners, and Faculty Researchers |
| Saturday, May 29, 2010 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| Travis B (Grand Hyatt) |
| Area: TBA/EDC; Domain: Applied Behavior Analysis |
| CE Instructor: Elizabeth Martineau, Ed.S. |
| TOM SHARPE (Educational Consulting, Inc.), JOHN KOPERWAS (Educational Consulting, Inc.) |
| Description: The workshop will provide hands-on application of a user friendly software package designed to collect and analyze discrete and time-based behavioral data for a wide range of evaluation and feedback applications in direct observation client settings. The program and compatible materials are particularly useful to graduate students, behavioral psychologists, BCBA and BCABA professionals engaged in assessment and behavior plan activities, and experimental analysts. Specifically, this workshop will be valuable to anyone interested in analyzing complex configurations of behaviors which are emitted at high rates, often overlap in time, and which are context dependent. Discussion includes an introduction to (a) recommended procedures when collecting time-based data in the live setting and from videotape records, and (b) computer generated behavior descriptions, graphic displays, statistical analyses, and reliability comparisons of data files when engaged in staff training and assessment of data integrity. As a function of workshop participation, attendees will be provided with all workshop presentation materials, a complimentary copy of the complete software package, and a .pdf file summary of compatible research methods published by Sage Publications.
It is recommended that workshop participants bring their own IBM compatible laptop hardware to facilitate hands-on workshop interactions. |
| Learning Objectives: Workshop participants will exit with software-based data collection and analysis competencies: 1. ability to construct and apply systemic observation systems,
2. ability to generate a time-based behavioral record using an inclusive overlapping category system,
3. ability to construct graphic representations, 4. ability to perform traditional and sequential analyses using multiple measurement methodologies,
5. ability to edit graphic data representations and apply relevant visual and statistical analyses,
6. ability to conduct reliability and treatment fidelity analyses, and
7. ability to apply a variety of data record edit and merge functions when operating with complex multiple event category systems.
This workshop has several learning objective:
1. Participants will be able to discuss the principles and practice of discrete and sequential behavior analysis methods.
2. Participants will be able to apply a range of computer-based data collection, reliability, and measurement techniques to their particular behavior analysis interests.
3. Participants will be able to understand and apply a range of computer-based descriptive and statistical data analysis techniques in relation to discrete and sequential measurement sets.
4. Participants will be able to construct a variety of behavior graphs and apply appropriate analysis techniques to the graph types covered, and in relation to research and behavior service application example. |
| Activities: Activities include (a) a review of traditional behavior analysis recording methods; (b) an introduction to, and hands-on application of, a computer-based package designed to enhance behavior analyses of complex interactive settings; and (c) a detailed hands-on demonstration of data collection features, discrete and sequential analysis capabilities within and across data-file graphic representations, and a variety of reliability, treatment fidelity, and data manipulation and editing functions—all designed to facilitate applied activities in assessment, behavior planning, treatment, and ongoing observation of a variety of settings and environments. |
| Audience: Graduate students, behavior analysts, BCBA, BCABA, and related therapists working in a variety of applied and experimental settings who are interested in the interactive nature of behavior in situations where study of multiple behaviors and events, multiple participants, and changing setting variables are present. Those working in educational and social science settings and who are challenged with how to describe and analyze highly interactive behavioral transactions should find the workshop experience and complimentary software particularly appealing, as they will be useful in wide range of research and assessment applications. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |