Theses/Dissertations - Educational Psychology
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Teaching children with autism spectrum disorder to mand for answers to questions via telehealth : a caregiver implementation.
(2022-05-04)Information is a valuable part of learning and interacting with our environment as it allows us to behave more effectively (i.e., access reinforcement). Information can be gained by engaging in social interactions with ... -
Misclassification errors informed by response time in item factor analysis.
(2022-03-25)The measurement process necessarily leads to observations measured with error to a degree. In education, researchers often want to obtain measurements of difficult-to-measure constructs such as content knowledge, motivation, ... -
The effect of STEM education on the academic success and social-emotional development of gifted students.
(2021-07-14)STEM education, accepted as one of the most significant educational movements of recent years, is an approach that aims to educate students, including gifted students, in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, ... -
Video activity schedules to support academic learning for children with autism spectrum disorder.
(2021-07-23)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in communication and engage in restrictive and repetitive behaviors that may impede their ability to learn, particularly in school environments. Evidence-based ... -
Phonemic awareness instruction with children at risk of reading failure.
(2021-07-27)Although reading is a set of skills critical to long term educational and vocational outcomes, many children in the United States are at risk of reading failure for a variety of reasons. For these children, establishing ... -
Implementing multiple schedules after functional communication training in natural settings with natural change agents and natural stimuli.
(2021-05-04)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are much more likely to engage in challenging behavior than their typically developing peers. Challenging behavior is not only problematic for the individual, but also the key ... -
Parent-implemented interventions for children with developmental disabilities and delays : challenging behavior and parenting stress.
(2021-04-19)In Study 1, we synthesized the current literature on challenging behavior interventions in community settings and evaluated the intervention effects using the What Works Clearinghouse Single-Case Design Standards (WWC, ... -
Content validity evidence for the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program.
(2020-07-14)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 54 children in the United States and the prevalence has increased by exponentially in the last decade (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]). With the rising ... -
Teaching Spanish-speaking parents to implement challenging behavior interventions.
(2020-07-28)Research evaluating the efficacy and social validity of challenging behavior interventions with parents who speak languages other than English is limited. Coaching Spanish speaking parents in Spanish resulted in high ... -
Perceived stress in gifted adolescents : an exploratory study.
(2020-07-21)High school aged adolescents face many challenges, including academic, social, athletic, and personal obstacles that can be forms of eustress (i.e. “good stress”) which promote growth and development across domains, however ... -
Investigating the McNair Program and alumni outcomes.
(2020-01-28)The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program is a federal program designed to support students from first-generation, low-income, and racial or ethnic minority households. However, little research has been ... -
Teaching children with autism spectrum disorder to engage in reciprocal conversations using text-message prompting.
(2019-11-19)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulties maintaining conversations. Although there are several established interventions which target initiations and responses to questions made by others, ... -
Review of assessment and training strategies for preservice behavior analysts.
(2019-07-10)The need for behavior analytic services is rapidly growing, resulting in a demand for a greater number of practitioners to provide services to consumers. To ensure training is sufficient to produce competent practitioners, ... -
Factor analysis in educational settings : a simulation study comparing fit statistics across robust estimators.
(2019-05-07)In education and social science, data often arise from nested data structures, meaning that students are nested within teachers or schools. Traditional factor analytic approaches to measuring latent traits do not account ... -
Using structural equation modeling to examine the relationships between environmental characteristics, intrapersonal characteristics, and adult numeracy achievement.
(2019-04-02)Quantitative literacy or numeracy skills are increasingly important at every level in a knowledge-based society. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between numeracy achievement, environmental ... -
Implementation intention as a cognitive strategy in STEM education : assessing pre-algebraic performance in 8th grade math instruction.
(2016-08-03)Conceptualization of STEM has been a challenge due to varying perspectives within schools, school districts, and instructors. Implementation intention refers to a memory encoding strategy in which individuals explicitly ... -
The use of demand assessments in the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior.
(2018-10-08)Selection of demands without a demand assessment could result in a failure to identify an escape function for escape-maintained challenging behavior. Demands may be categorized into two categories: low-aversive and ... -
Choice-making interventions to reduce challenging behavior for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(2018-11-27)A systematic literature review was conducted to summarize the current literature on interventions incorporating choice to reduce challenging behavior. Current literature supports the effectiveness of choice-making interventions ... -
An evaluation of generalization strategies used with functional communication training.
(2018-12-04)Research has shown that functional communication training (FCT) is effective for reducing problem behavior and multiple schedules can facilitate reinforcer schedule thinning during FCT. Most studies that have used multiple ... -
The effects of active learning on professional development motivation in early childhood teachers.
(2018-11-06)A quasi-experimental design was conducted to examine the motivation of in-service early childhood teachers to pursue additional professional development opportunities and implement evidence-based strategies in their ...