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| JABA Data |
| Tuesday, June 1, 2004 |
| 12:00 PM–12:50 PM |
| Fairfax B |
| Area: EAB |
| Chair: Margaret L. Cowles (Minnesota State University) |
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| Generality in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis from 1968-2003 |
| Domain: Applied Research |
| MARGARET L. COWLES (Minnesota State University), Daniel D. Houlihan (Minnesota State University), Jeremy Husfeldt (Minnesota State University), Tonya Diesen (Minnesota State University) |
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| Abstract: A successful intervention in the research driven field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) is one that has empirical evidence to show not only an initial acquisition of behavior change, but that this behavior change is extended to other non-training settings and related behaviors, that the intervention is effective for different individuals, and that it may be implemented across several behavior change agents. Furthermore, the behavior change must be maintained after treatment is terminated. In other words, successful behavioral treatments must demonstrate generality. The current study evaluated ABA’s leading journal, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, from 1968-2003, in terms of its assessment of applied behaviors, participants, and settings; generality across time, behaviors, settings, participants, and behavior change agents; and the experimental design assessing these components. Procedural integrity was assessed; exact agreement = .93. Results indicate that these components were most adequately addressed between 1970 and 1985 and have steadily declined since then. The largest decline was seen in the use of applied settings and assessment of generality across time: in the 1970’s both applied settings and generality across time were assessed in 75.2% of its articles; in 1990-2003 both were assessed 35.8% of the time. Implications of findings are discussed. |
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| Trends of Single Subject Research Designs in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis from 1968-2003 |
| Domain: Applied Research |
| MARGARET L. COWLES (Minnesota State University), Daniel D. Houlihan (Minnesota State University), James Snyder (Minnesota State University), Jeremy Husfeldt (Minnesota State University), Tonya Diesen (Minnesota State University), Amy Ornat (Minnesota State University) |
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| Abstract: The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) is arguably the leading journal in the field of applied behavior analysis. The current study evaluated articles in this journal from 1968-2003; kappa = .93. Data indicated that 85.5% of the experiments published in JABA during this time frame are small n designs. Since the purpose of small n designs is to apply refined experimentation with an elevated degree of experimental control; we evaluated the experimental dependability of the single subject research designs based on the type of design used, the type of interrater reliability utilized to judge the integrity of the data gathered, the type of statistical trend analysis employed (if any), and the manner in which the data were displayed. Data indicated that the most widely used single subject research design used is multiple baseline across subjects (20.5%), that functional analysis have made a steady increase since 1991, over 89% of the interrater reliability strategies employed do not take into account chance agreement, that trend analyses are conducted less than 1% of the time, and the most popular data display method is the data polygon (94.6%). Trends across time and implications for the future are discussed. |
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