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dc.contributor.advisorMiller, L. Keith
dc.contributor.authorTieghi, Constance
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-08T01:39:42Z
dc.date.available2008-09-08T01:39:42Z
dc.date.issued2008-01-02
dc.date.submitted2007
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2310
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/4145
dc.description.abstractThe main purpose of this project was to develop a teacher run, behaviorally based meeting system to foster teacher data-based decision-making when targeting either academic and/or behavioral problems in either general or special education. The goal was for this meeting system to survive after the experimenter left the setting. The original study took place over a two-year period in a Midwest public middle school serving 600 students. This meeting system was based on a meeting manual, consisting of scripted meeting agendas developed to guide teachers through the meeting process. In order to analyze the effect of the meeting manual on the percentage of data-based decision making and team meeting behaviors displayed during team meetings (i.e., meeting tasks), a reversal ABA'B design was implemented. The percentage of applicable meeting tasks completed increased from an average of 13% during baseline, to 81% with manual implementation. Manual withdrawal was associated with applicable meeting task completion decreasing to an average of 54%, and increasing back to 79% with manual re-implementation. Follow-up observations up to four years after the experimenter left the setting revealed continued implementation of the meeting manual and applicable meeting tasks completed to average 80%, despite a change in the school's principal, vice principal, and psychologist during this period.
dc.format.extent170 pages
dc.language.isoEN
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsThis item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.
dc.subjectBehavioral psychology
dc.subjectPrereferral
dc.subjectScript
dc.subjectMeetings
dc.subjectProgram survival
dc.subjectTeachers
dc.subjectSchool
dc.titleA Behaviorally Based Teacher Driven Meeting System: Survival
dc.typeDissertation
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineApplied Behavioral Science
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPH.D.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid6599199
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