Performance Task #1
These tasks are, in effect, performance tasks. In education, a performance task is a learning activity or assessment that requires students to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and proficiency. Performance tasks are essentially the application of course content that you have learned to date in order to solve a simulated problem. The intention is to replicate some of the types of “real-life” situations you are likely to face in the field.
Three performance tasks are assigned during this course. For this first Performance Task, you will explore the early stages of the single-case design. You will also analyze behaviors, determine operational definitions, and develop a recording strategy.
To Prepare
- Review the Learning Resources for this week. Note: Your review of this week’s video lecture will be critical to the completion of this Assignment.
- Review the “Case Study Performance Tasks” document found in the Learning Resources and consider the problem found within the case study. You will use this case study to complete this Assignment.
Performance Task #1 Assignment (2–3 pages):
- For any single-case design, explain how you would develop a case history.
- Note: This section of the Assignment relates to the general process you would follow when developing any single-case design case history.
- Using the “Case Study Performance Tasks” document in the Learning Resources, explain each of the possible target behaviors identified in the document:
- Making eye contact
- Acknowledging the other person without prompting
- Offering a verbal response to the other person’s greeting
- Responding reciprocally with a wave or a smile
- Maintaining appropriate distance between him and the other person
- Choose one of the possible target behaviors identified in the “Case Study Performance Tasks” document and determine a plausible operational definition for the target behavior you choose.
- Describe the recording strategy for data collection represented in the “Case Study Performance Tasks” document
Be sure to support your Assignment with specific references to behavior-analytic theory and research. In addition to the Learning Resources, search the Walden Library and/or the internet for peer-reviewed articles to support your Assignment. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.
Resources
- Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
- Chapter 10, “Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Research in Applied Behavior Analysis” (pp. 216–250)
- Kazdin, A. E. (2021). Single-case research designs: Methods for clinical and applied settings (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 5, “Ensuring the Quality of Measurement” (pp. 128–155)
- Fallon, L. M., Collier-Meek, M. A., Sanetti, L. M. H., Feinberg, A. B., & Kratochwill, T. R. (2016). Implementation planning to promote parents’ treatment integrity of behavioral interventions for children with autismLinks to an external site.. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 26, 87-109. doi: 10.1080/10474412.2015.1039124
- Kupzyk, S., & Shriver, M. D. (2016). A systematic framework for addressing treatment integrity in school settingsLinks to an external site.. Psychology in the Schools, 53 , 954–970. doi: 10.1002/pits.21955
- McIntyre, L. L., Gresham, F. M., DiGennaro, F. D. & Reed, D. D. (2016). Treatment integrity of school-based interventions with children in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1991-2005Links to an external site.. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40 , 659- 672. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2007.659-672
- Document: Case Study Performance Tasks Download Case Study Performance Tasks(Word document)