Increasing data collection using e-mail feedback

Document Type

Thesis

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Degree

M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis

Date Completed

2022

First Committee Member

Karsina, Allen

Second Committee Member

Thompson, Rachel

Third Committee Member

Henley, Amy

Abstract

"Performance-based feedback (PBF) is corrective or positive information given verbally or in written form due to performance. E-mail has been studied as a low-resource-intensive tool used to deliver PBF. For example, Artman-Meeker and Hemmeter (2012) found that a 5-part e-mail, including frequency counts, PBF, and embedded replies, were sufficient in increasing desired teacher behavior (i.e., descriptive praise, prompting emotional labeling, prompting choices). The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of PBF delivered via a weekly e-mail on the data collection of targeted student classes by a team of teachers. One class from each of three student participants attending a school for children with developmental disabilities was selected based on low rates of data collection by educators. After baseline (no e-mails with PBF) was collected for each target class, weekly e-mails were sent to educators to inform them of data summary on a targeted class the prior weeks and the goal for data summary for the upcoming week. In addition, the e-mail included a corrective or positive statement for meeting or failing to meet their goal based on group performance and a graph depicting past performance and target performance. A multiple baseline across classes embedded with a withdrawal design was used. Results suggest that this intervention can be effective but may not be practical for multiple target classes or all classes."

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