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Coverage of cultural and linguistic—Diversity is expanded to reflect our changing times and environment and prepare pre-service teachers for the classrooms they will encounter in their future teaching professions.

General education examples are integrated throughout the text to show the benefits and necessities of inclusion.

Chapter Outline at the start of every chapter and Key Terms at the end of every chapter.

Coverage of functional assessment and functional analysis—Iincluding behavior support plans that provide teachers with powerful strategies to deal with challenging student behaviors without resorting to traditional, aversive, or punitive methods.

Example instruments and strategies that have been classroom-tested—Demonstrate the ease of data collection in today's educational settings.

Functional assessment and analysis chapter—Bridges the gap between development of a hypothesis and selection of an intervention strategy; facilitates understanding of the behavior change paradigm.

Classroom examples throughout—Create a vision of applied behavior analysis that is immediate, accessible, and relevant to both student and teacher

Sheets, charts, and tables for actual data recording—Shows students “how it's done.”

New To This Edition

• NEW–Classroom-based examples and practices firmly grounded in research.
• NEW–Content is presented in the order of decision-making by a teacher who has a student exhibiting challenging behavior in class or a student who needs to execute a behavior-change project.
• NEW–Covers identifying target behavior, collecting and graphing data, functional assessment, experimental design, arranging antecedents and consequences, generalizing behavior change and discusses the importance of ethical considerations in using applied behavior analysis in the classroom.
• NEW–A rewritten and expanded chapter on functional assessment and functional analysis (Chapter
• NEW–Behavior Support Plans (Chapter Six)
• NEW–Updated examples that address the contemporary interests of children and young adults
• NEW–Classroom “snapshots” that show teachers using applied behavior analysis techniques in different settings
• NEW–An enhanced online supplement support package for adopters of the text

Table of Contents

Chapter 1    Roots of Applied Behavior Analysis

The Usefulness of Explanations

Developmental Explanations

Cognitive Explanations

Behavioral Explanations

Historical Development of Behaviorism

Chapter 2    Preparing Behavioral Objectives

Definition and Purpose

Educational Goals

Components of a Behavioral Objective

Format for a Behavioral Objective

Expanding the Scope of the Basic Behavioral Objective

Behavioral Objectives and the IEP

A Rationale

Choosing a System

Anecodotal Reports

Permanent Product Recording

Observational Recording Systems

Duration and Latency Recording

How Can All This Be Done?

Summary of Data Collection Systems

Reliability

Factors That May Affect Data Collection and Interobserver Agreement

The Simple Line Graph

Additional Graphing Conventions

Cumulative Graphs

Bar Graphs

Variables and Functional Relations

Basic Categories of Designs

Single-Subject Designs

AB Design

Reversal Design

Changing Criterion Design

Multiple Baseline Design

Alternating Treatments Design

Changing Conditions Design

Evaluating Single-Subject Designs

Action Research and Single-Subject Designs

Behavior and Its Function

The Behavior Support Plan

Development of a Behavior Support Plan

Positive Reinforcement

Contracting

Variations in Administration of Reinforcers

Negative Reinforcement

Natural Reinforcement

Chapter 8    Arrranging Consequences That Decrease Behavior

Procedural Alternatives for Behavior Reduction

Level I: Reinforcement-Based Strategies

Level II: Extinction

Sensory Extinction

Punishment

Level III: Removal of Desirable Stimuli

Level IV: Presentation of Aversive Stimuli

Overcorrection

Antecedent Influences on Behavior

Differential Reinforcement for Stimulus Control,

Principles of Discrimination

Prompts

Modeling

Physical Guidance

Fading

Teaching Complex Behaviors

Differential Reinforcement for Shaping

Generalization

Training Generalization

A Common Experience

Preparing Students to Manage Their Own Behavior

Self-Management for Learners with Severe Disabilities

Self-Management for Learners with Mild Disabilities

Self-Management for Students at Risk

Concerns About Applied Behavior Analysis

Ethical Use of Applied Behavior Analysis Procedures

Accountability

Theory or Recipes?

Stimulus Control

A Look into Learning Environments

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  Alberto & Troutman
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  Scholarly and empirically based, this market-leading text gives students what they need to understand to use the principles and practices of applied behavior analysis in the classroom. The content is presented clearly in a friendly, accessible–even fun–manner. The ninth edition uses general education classroom-based examples and practices firmly grounded in research. Content is presented in the order of decision-making by a teacher who has a student exhibiting challenging behavior in class or a student who needs to execute a behavior-change project.

   

  The text covers identifying target behavior, collecting and graphing data, functional assessment, experimental design, arranging antecedents and consequences, and generalizing behavior change. The importance of ethical considerations in using applied behavior analysis in the classroom is now presented at the beginning of the book to highlight the importance of applying principles and practices responsibly. The ninth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. Included in the revision is a rewritten chapter on decreasing behavior, additional information on using principles and practices with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and increased coverage of positive behavioral support with new coverage of schoolwide prevention and intervention strategies.

   

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• New and revised content includes: identifying target behavior, collecting and graphing data, functional assessment, experimental design, arranging antecedents and consequences, generalizing behavior change and discusses the importance of ethical considerations in using applied behavior analysis in the classroom.
• Content is presented in the order of decision-making by a teacher who has a student exhibiting challenging behavior in class or a student who needs to execute a behavior-change project.
•  A rewritten and expanded chapter on functional assessment and functional analysis and new Behavior Support Plans (Chapter Six).
• Features classroom-based examples and practices firmly grounded in research.
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