Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 9 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 66 |
Descriptor
Source
Journal of Applied Behavior… | 68 |
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 68 |
Reports - Research | 42 |
Reports - Evaluative | 25 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Preschool Education | 68 |
Early Childhood Education | 29 |
Audience
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Louisiana | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Lozy, Erica D.; Holmes, Sarah C.; Donaldson, Jeanne M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Students who fail to acquire foundational literacy skills during preschool are more likely to read below grade level average in elementary school and are at a heightened risk for future school failure, poverty, early mortality, and crime. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects and maintenance of and preference for paired kinesthetic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Movement Education, Literacy Education, Preschool Education
Robison, Melinda A.; Mann, Tracie B.; Ingvarsson, Einar T. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
The Preschool Life Skills program is an intervention package designed to teach functional skills to prevent problem behavior in typically developing children. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effects of the instructional package (renamed "Life Skills") with children with developmental disabilities. The program…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Friendship
Bowe, Melissa; Sellers, Tyra P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (PDC-HS) has been used to assess variables contributing to undesirable staff performance. In this study, three preschool teachers completed the PDC-HS to identify the factors contributing to four paraprofessionals' inaccurate implementation of error-correction procedures during discrete trial…
Descriptors: Performance, Check Lists, Preschool Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Ming, Siri; Mulhern, Teresa; Stewart, Ian; Moran, Laura; Bynum, Kellie – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
In a "class inclusion" task, a child must respond to stimuli as being involved in two different though hierarchically related categories. This study used a Relational Frame Theory (RFT) paradigm to assess and train this ability in three typically developing preschoolers and three individuals with autism spectrum disorder, all of whom had…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Task Analysis
Fahmie, Tara A.; Luczynski, Kevin C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
Over the past decade, researchers have replicated and extended research on the preschool life skills (PLS) program developed by Hanley, Heal, Tiger, and Ingvarsson (2007). This review summarizes recent research with respect to maximizing skill acquisition, improving generality, evaluating feasibility and acceptability, and testing predictions of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Daily Living Skills, Skill Development, Educational Improvement
May, Michael E.; Shayter, Ashley M.; Schmick, Ayla; Barron, Becky; Doherty, Meghan; Johnson, Matthew – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
Law enforcement agencies stress that public reporting of terror-related crime is the predominant means for disrupting these actions. However, schools may be unprepared because the majority of the populace may not understand the threat of suspicious materials or what to do when they are found on school grounds. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Safety Education, Disclosure, School Safety
Nava, Maria J.; Vargo, Kristina K.; Babino, Misti M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
Students may engage in high rates of social approach responses at inappropriate times throughout the school day. One intervention that has been used to teach students appropriate and inappropriate times to access attention is a multiple schedule of reinforcement. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of a multiple schedule that indicated when…
Descriptors: Attention, Intervention, Positive Reinforcement, Positive Behavior Supports
May, Richard J.; Downs, Rachel; Marchant, Amanda; Dymond, Simon – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
We evaluated the emergence of untaught second-language skills following directly taught listener and intraverbal responses. Three preschool children were taught first-language (English) listener responses (e.g., "Point to the horse") and second-language (Welsh) intraverbal responses (e.g., "What is horse in Welsh?" [ceffyl]).…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Intervention
Garcia, David; Dukes, Charles; Brady, Michael P.; Scott, Jack; Wilson, Cynthia L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
We evaluated the efficacy of an instructional procedure to teach young children with autism to evacuate settings and notify an adult during a fire alarm. A multiple baseline design across children showed that an intervention that included modeling, rehearsal, and praise was effective in teaching fire safety skills. Safety skills generalized to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Safety Education, Teaching Methods
Luczynski, Kevin C.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Rodriguez, Nicole M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
The preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007; Luczynski & Hanley, 2013) involves teaching social skills as a means of decreasing and preventing problem behavior. However, achieving durable outcomes as children transition across educational settings depend on the generalization and long-term maintenance…
Descriptors: Generalization, Maintenance, Skill Development, Prompting
Hanley, Gregory P.; Fahmie, Tara A.; Heal, Nicole A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
In an attempt to address risk factors associated with extensive nonfamilial child care, we implemented the preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007) in two community-based Head Start classrooms. A multiple baseline design across classrooms, repeated across skills, showed that the program resulted in a 5-fold…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Daily Living Skills, Early Childhood Education
Beaulieu, Lauren; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
We used a multiple baseline design across skills to evaluate the effects of a program to teach a classroom of children to respond to their name and a group call (i.e., precursors) as well as to peer mediate these precursors to promote compliance with a variety of multistep instructions. Teachers taught these skills via classwide behavior skills…
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Skill Development
Greer, Brian D.; Neidert, Pamela L.; Dozier, Claudia L.; Payne, Steven W.; Zonneveld, Kimberley L. M.; Harper, Amy M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We conducted functional analyses (FA) with 4 typically developing preschool children during ongoing classroom activities and evaluated treatments that were based on FA results. Results of each child's FA suggested social-positive reinforcement functions, and differential reinforcement of alternative behavior plus time-out was effective in…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Preschool Children, Positive Reinforcement, Behavior Modification
Kodak, Tiffany; Fisher, Wayne W.; Paden, Amber; Dickes, Nitasha – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We evaluated a discrete-trial functional analysis implemented by regular classroom staff in a classroom setting. The results suggest that the discrete-trial functional analysis identified a social function for each participant and may require fewer staff than standard functional analysis procedures.
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Early Intervention, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
Donaldson, Jeanne M.; Vollmer, Timothy R.; Yakich, Theresa M.; Van Camp, Carole – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
Time-out is a negative punishment procedure that parents and teachers commonly use to reduce problem behavior; however, specific time-out parameters have not been evaluated adequately. One parameter that has received relatively little attention in the literature is the mode of administration (verbal or physical) of time-out. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Discipline, Timeout, Student Behavior