Evidence-Based Practices (EBP)
This field is where the term “evidence-based practice” originally came from.
What is medicine?
This phase always comes before an intervention begins.
What is baseline?
This simple two-phase design includes a baseline followed by intervention.
What is the A-B design?
Single-case designs help teachers track progress on these legally required plans.
What are IEP goals and objectives?
Data trend can be ascending, descending, or this.
What is stable?
Public scrutiny and federal mandates have increased the need for this among educators.
What is accountability?
The variable representing the treatment or strategy being applied in a single-case design.
What is the independent variable?
This design adds a withdrawal of intervention after the B phase.
What is the A-B-A design?
This design is considered particularly useful in classroom settings where withdrawing treatment would be unethical.
What is the multiple-baseline design?
This refers to the average performance within a phase.
What is the level?
These practices rely on high-quality research to guide decisions about interventions.
What are evidence-based practices?
The term for the behavior being measured for change (e.g., # of correct subtraction problems).
What is the dependent variable (or target behavior)?
This design reintroduces the intervention after a second baseline, strengthening experimental control.
What is the A-B-A-B reversal design?
Teachers often use single-case designs to evaluate student performance and this aspect of learning.
What are learning processes/outcomes?
In analyzing graphs, this refers to how closely individual data points cluster together.
What is variability?
Single-case design contributes to EBP by helping identify what works in this school-based framework.
What is PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)?
Devising a research question, defining behavior, applying intervention, and collecting data are steps of this broader process.
What is the scientific method?
This design changes goals step-by-step, reinforcing successive approximations (think shaping).
What is the changing-criterion design?
Removing this part of a reversal design is considered unethical in classroom contexts.
What is the treatment/intervention?
This analysis asks whether data points in the intervention phase overlap with data points in baseline.
What is overlap analysis?
This construct ensures that interventions are meaningful, socially significant, and important to learners and families.
What is social validity?
A functional relationship is established when changes in this reliably cause changes in behavior.
What is the intervention/treatment (independent variable)?
This design compares two or more treatments by rapidly switching between them.
What is the alternating treatments design?
This design is ideal for comparing two instructional strategies in a real classroom.
What is the alternating treatments design?
When graph analysis shows consistent, predictable changes tied to the intervention, researchers can claim this.
What is a functional relationship?