Journal Article 1
Review the attached assignment for completing journal article #1. You MUST use Microsoft Word. Submit your completed assignment to Canvas.
After opening the file listed below, click on the link to the article. You can print the article by going to Format located at the top right and clicking on PDF. If you choose another format, the graphs will be difficult to read.
EDU 665 JOURNAL ARTICLE #1 ASSIGNMENT
(25 POINTS)
Instructions: Go to the following professional journal article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2410201/
Peer Tutoring to Prevent Firearm Play: Acquisition, Generalization, and Long-term Maintenance of Safety Skills, Candice M. Jostad, Raymond G. Miltenberger, Pamela Kelso, and Peter Knudson
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Spring 2008, Vol 41, No. 1, pp 117-123.
Review the article thoroughly. Write a 1-2 page summary of the article in APA style, including purpose, method, procedures, results, and personal critique. At the beginning of your summary, list the CORRECT and complete article citation in APA style. Format your summary this way after listing the citation:
Purpose
State purpose
Method
Describe method
Procedures
Describe procedures
Results
Report the results
Personal Critique
Blah, blah, blah
Answer the questions below separately from the summary.
Respond to the 10 questions below. Place your completed project in dropbox. (15 points for summary, 10 points for answers to questions below).
1. List the 4 goals of this research study.
2. What is “in situ” assessment?
3. Interobserver agreement is discussed in the textbook on pgs 101-104.
(a) Describe the process as used in the current article.
(b) Describe how this agreement was calculated in the current article.
4. List the rating method used to score each participant’s responses when finding a gun in his/her natural environment.
5. What was the independent variable and describe how it was conducted.
6. The total time spent coaching each peer trainer to conduct BST sessions ranged from 90 minutes to 115 minutes, with a mean score of 102.5 minutes. Explain why the number of minutes varied.
7. Review Figure 1 in the current article. Which child’s baseline score was consistently perfect?
8. In Figure 1 which child’s score (after training) improved the greatest from his/her first assessment (after training) to the second assessment?
9. Review Figure 2 in the current article. Study the data collected for each of the six participants during the maintenance phase of the project. It varies significantly.
(a) Briefly report how each participant performed during the maintenance phase.
(b) What variables do you think may account for these differences?
10. In evaluating the performance of all participants in this study, do you think the 4 goals of the study were accomplished? Why or why not?