Evaluating the effectiveness of a web-based program of instruction

Document Type

Thesis

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Degree

M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis

Date Completed

2021

First Committee Member

Dickson, Chata A.

Second Committee Member

Henley, Amy J.

Third Committee Member

Johnson, Cammarie

Abstract

"Teaching new skills to individuals with autism and other related disabilities is typically done using discrete-trial- training procedures, such as matching to sample (MTS) and are often used in a tabletop method. When running tabletop sessions, the experimenter must collect data as well as maintain procedural integrity while running sessions. An alternative method of teaching new skills is Web-Based Instruction (WBI). WBI is the use of online instruction used over the internet for the purpose of training or education, and it allows for quick and easy access to learning materials and resources. Participants were 2 children diagnosed with autism who had low accuracy scores on an arbitrary visual MTS task. The sample stimuli were country outlines, and the comparisons were country flags. Participants did not learn new stimulus relations using the Boom Cards WBI program, which used an automated trial-and-error method of teaching. Another distance learning platform, Seesaw, was introduced and this method of teaching allowed for the use of prompting and feedback to be provided from a teacher in a remote location. Both participants learned new conditional discriminations using Seesaw. Furthermore, both participants correctly matched when posttest probes were conducted using a PowerPoint."

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