Finally, students will be provided an opportunity to share the results of their course projects with their peers. This exercise will consist of a short oral presentation given by each student. The behavior change project will be conducted on a child or children identified by the K553 student as in need of either academic or behavioral intervention services. This child preferably will be classified as a special education student and can be assigned to the K553 student's class or a colleague's class. An intervention plan is developed and submitted to the instructor for review and feedback.
Research critiques .
Much of the literature in special education contains beahvioral data. Thus, an important goal of K553 is to train students to be able to interpret and critique behavior analytic studies. Each student is expected to prepare three critiques of applied behavior analysis articles selected from the journals listed on the attached assignment sheet. These abstracts should be approximately one to one and one half pages long and follow the prescribed format. All articles must have been published within the past five years.