Abstract
Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD) in the United States are often underserved by the education system, which contributes to their academic difficulties and poor student outcomes. Research on Positive-to-Negative (PN) response ratios suggest that maintaining a high ratio helps decrease inappropriate behaviors and improve academic outcomes for students with EBD. The current study investigates the effects of a high PN ratio on the behavior of an educator of students with EBD by utilizing a tracking app to help meet a target PN ratio. One preservice special education teacher working as a paraeducator was recruited to participate in the study. The paraeducator was asked to meet PN ratio goals of 2:1, 5:1, and 10:1. Visual analysis of the data collected throughout the study indicated that each successively higher PN ratio was met by the paraeducator suggesting that access to the tracking app was functionally related to the paraeducator's ability increase her PN ratio goals. This is consistent with previous research suggesting that self-monitoring is an effective procedure to increase the use of praise and it extends access to effective interventions by adding real-time, app-based monitoring to the list of effective supports for educators. The limitations and implications of the study are discussed alongside the potential implications for practice suggested by these findings.
Degree
EdS
College and Department
David O. McKay School of Education
Rights
https://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Schaeffer, Bailey Jane, "The Effects of Real-Time Feedback on the Positive to Negative Ratio for an Educator Supporting Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 10081.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/10081
Date Submitted
2023-08-14
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd12919
Keywords
Praise, reprimands, emotional and behavioral disorders, praise ratio
Language
english