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Focus on Behavior Analysis in Education: Achievements, Challenges, & Opportunities
William L. Heward, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
Timothy E. Heron, The Ohio State University
Nancy A. Neef, Ohio State University
Stephanie M. Peterson, Idaho State University
Diane M. Sainato, Ohio State University
Gwendolyn Y. Cartledge, Ohio State University
Ralph Gardner, III, Ohio State University
Lloyd D. Peterson, Ohio State University
Susan B. Hersh, Ohio State University
Jill C. Dardig, Ohio Dominican University

ISBN-10: 0131113399
ISBN-13:  9780131113398

Publisher:  Merrill
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 384 pp
Published:  07/02/2004
Status: Instock


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Primary text or supplement for graduate-level courses or seminars on applied behavior analysis, educational reform, and evidence-based curriculum and instruction.

 

The nineteen chapters in this edited volume were developed from presentations given at The Ohio State University’s Third Focus on Behavior Analysis in Education Conference. The contributing authors present literature reviews, conceptual analyses, and data from several original studies; they describe advancements in curricula, classroom and schoolwide interventions, and teacher training programs; and they offer personal perspectives on the current status and future directions of behavior analysis in education. This text is an ideal resource for three groups (1) educators seeking information and resources on measurably effective instructional tools; (2) students of behavior analysis wishing to learn about its applications, accomplishments, and future research needs in education; and (3) anyone–pre-service education major, in-service teacher, school administrator, parent, or consumer–who has heard about the “behavioral approach” and wonders what it is all about.

 


Features

Four-part organization– The four parts of the text offer students the most relevant and current topics about applied behavior analysis in education.

 

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Part I, Achieving Improvements in the Lives of Children with Autism, describes the role of applied behavior analysis in the lives of children with autism and their families.

 

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Part II, Recent Developments, Continuing Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities, includes chapters on topics such as curriculum design for beginning reading instruction, positive schoolwide support, and teaching children to make beneficial choices.

 

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Part III, Training, Supporting, and Learning with Measurably Effective Teachers, examines various issues and approaches to pre-service teacher preparation and the professional development of practicing teachers.  

 

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Part IV, Perspectives on the Current and Future Functions of Behavior Analysis in Education, examines the current and future role of applied behavior analysis in education.

 

 

A broad range of topics —Including chapters by many of the most prominent scholars in applied behavior analysis, gives students the benefit of current thinking from the “major players” in the field. For example. . .

 

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The late Don Baer, one of the founding fathers of ABA, describes the required features of ABA as an educational treatment and its critical value to all children who depend on systematic instruction to learn useful skills.

 

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Catherine Maurice and Bridget Taylor discuss challenges and opportunities for educators, therapists, and parents who want to provide effective help for children diagnosed with autism.

 

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George Sugai and Rob Horner provide a rationale, examples, and guidelines for building a preventive continuum of positive behavior support that extends behavioral interventions and practices to the school and district levels.

 

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Dick Malott describes a behavioral-systems approach for teaching behavior analysis that integrates goal-directed systems design, behavioral systems engineering, performance management, and a skills-training model of education.

 

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Ilene Schwartz uses a framework of meaningful outcomes for all children to examine the education of students with disabilities in inclusive settings and recommends ways that ABA can help educators achieve those outcomes.

 

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John Cooper compares the research traditions of ABA and precision teaching and concludes that both approaches produce applied research important for advancing the science of behavior and educational practice.

 

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Judy Cameron debunks the notion that rewards undermine students’ intrinsic motivation to learn and suggests that the so-called negative effects of rewards have been used to reject the science of behavior and its programs.

 

A thought-provoking final chapter–"Reasons Why Applied Behavior Analysis Is Good for Education and Why those Reasons Have Been Insufficient"

 

Bill Heward instills in readers the idea that significant improvements in education will require closer alignment between the findings of behavioral research and classroom practice. He suggests some reasons why applied behavior analysis is well suited to contribute to educational reform, identifies a competing list of reasons that impede the acceptance and adoption of behavioral interventions in education, and offers some suggestions to those who wish to see applied behavior analysis play a more meaningful role in education.

 

Study Questions and Follow-Up Activities– At the end of each chapter.

 

Engage students and help solidify their understanding of chapter concepts by actively involving them in the use of the concepts with realistic behavior analysis situations and challenges.

 

Web site addresses for streamlining videos of conference presentations that are available online–

 

Offers students a first-hand view of this unique conference—encourages the extension of study beyond the limits of the text itself.

 

 

 


Table of Contents

I. ACHIEVING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM.

 1. Letters to a Lawyer - Donald M. Baer.

 2. Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention for Autism: Challenges and Opportunities - Catherine Maurice and Bridget A. Taylor.

II. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, CONTINUING CHALLENGES, AND EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES.

 3. A Nonlinear Approach to Curriculum Design: The Role of Behavior Analysis in Building an Effective Reading Program - Janet S. Twyman, T. V. Joe Layng, Greg Stikeleather, and Kelly A. Hobbins.

 4. Beginning Reading Failure and the Quantification of Risk: Reading Behavior as the Supreme Index - Edward J. Kame'enui, Roland Good III, and Beth A. Harn.

 5. Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports: Achieving and Sustaining Effective Learning Environments for All Students - George Sugai and Robert H. Horner.

 6. Individual Growth and Development Indicators: Tools for Assessing Intervention Results for Infants and Toddlers - Charles R. Greenwood, Judith J. Carta, and Dale Walker.

 7. Choice Making in Educational Settings - Stephanie M. Peterson, Nancy A. Neef, Renée K. Van Norman, and Summer J. Ferreri.

III. TRAINING, SUPPORTING, AND LEARNING WITH MEASURABLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS.

 8. Developing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Responsive Educator Program for Preservice General Education Teachers - Larry Maheady, Gregory F. Harper, and Barbara Mallette.

 9. Teaching Applied Behavior Analysis to Preservice Personnel: A Cooperative Field-based Approach - Jo Webber.

 10. Collaborating with Preservice and Mentor Teachers to Design and Implement Classroom Research - Sheila R. Alber and Janet S. Nelson.

 11. The Hawthorne Country Day School: A Behavioral Approach to Schooling - Christopher S. McDonough, Tina Covington, Sayaka Endo, Deborah Meinberg, Trina D. Spencer, and David F. Bicard.

12. Behavioral Systems Analysis and Higher Education - Richard W. Malott.

IV. PERSPECTIVES ON THE CURRENT AND FUTURE FUNCTIONS OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN EDUCATION.

13. Inclusion and Applied Behavior Analysis: Mending Fences and Building Bridges - Ilene S. Schwartz.

14. Building Behaviors versus Suppressing Behaviors: Perspectives and Prescriptions for Schoolwide Positive Behavior Change - Lloyd D. Peterson and Laura Lacy-Rismiller.

15. Plato's Allegory of the Cave Revisited: Disciples of the Light Appeal to the Pied Pipers and Prisoners in the Darkness - Timothy E. Heron, Matthew J. Tincani, Stephanie M. Peterson, and April D. Miller.

16. The Effects of "Behavior-Speak" on Public Attitudes Toward Behavioral Interventions: A Cross-Cultural Argument for Using Conversational Language to Describe Behavioral Interventions to the General Public - Amos Rolider and Saul Axelrod.

17. Applied Research: The Separation of Applied Behavior Analysis and Precision Teaching - John O. Cooper.

18. The Detrimental Effects of Reward Hypothesis: Persistence of a View in the Face of Disconfirming Evidence - Judy Cameron.

19. Reasons Applied Behavior Analysis is Good for Education and Why Those Reasons Have Been Insufficient - William L. Heward.



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