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Ball State University offers online graduate programs in applied behavior analysis and special education with focus in autism. Our ABA course sequence is verified by ABAI and meet the course work requirements to take the BCBA exam. Study at your own pace with 8-week and 16-week formats.
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Effects of Multi-Tier Academic and Behavior Instruction on Difficult-to-Teach Students
Content type: Journal Article
This article addresses the effects of 3-tiered comprehensive reading and behavior interventions on K-3 student outcomes in 7 urban elementary schools with a high prevalence of students considered difficult to teach. Specific features of each level of the...
Documenting Reading Achievement and Growth for Students Taking Alternate Assessments
Content type: Journal Article
Students with disabilities have been included in state accountability systems for more than a decade; however, only in the past few years have alternate assessments of alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) become stable enough to allow examination of...
Curriculum-Based Measurement of Reading Growth: Weekly Versus Intermittent Progress Monitoring
Content type: Journal Article
We examined the idea that leaner schedules of progress monitoring (PM) can lighten assessment demands without undermining decision-making accuracy. Using curriculum-based measurement of reading, we compared effects on decision accuracy of 5 intermittent PM...
Racing Against the Vocabulary Gap: Matthew Effects in Early Vocabulary Instruction and Intervention
Content type: Journal Article
We investigated whether individual differences in overall receptive vocabulary knowledge measured at the beginning of the year moderated the effects of a kindergarten vocabulary intervention that supplemented classroom vocabulary instruction. We also...
Strategies for Minimizing Variability in Progress Monitoring of Oral Reading Fluency
Content type: Journal Article
Curriculum based measurement (CBM) is widely used to monitor student progress on academic skills. Within the context of reading, CBM oral reading fluency (ORF) is the most commonly used progress-monitoring measure of students' reading abilities. While CBM...
Repositioning Disability in Children’s Picture Books Through Classroom Read-Alouds
Content type: Journal Article
Students with disabilities represent an increasing percentage of students in general education classrooms. Yet, in early elementary grades, they may not see themselves represented in picture books. Teachers face many challenges in this issue, including...
Curriculum-Based Measurement of Writing in Kindergarten and First Grade: An Investigation of Production and Qualitative Scores
Content type: Journal Article
Despite the growing body of research on writing assessment, little attention has been devoted to developing and validating measures for beginning writers. This study examined the technical adequacy of a Sentence Writing measure with 233 students in...
Curriculum-Based Measures of Beginning Writing: Technical Features of the Slope
Content type: Journal Article
This study examined technical features of slopes produced from curriculum-based measures (CBM) of beginning writing. Eighty-five first-graders completed weekly sentence copy, picture-word, and story prompts for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks, testing revealed...
Using Word Identification Fluency to Monitor First-Grade Reading Development
Content type: Journal Article
This study assessed the effects of sampling breadth on technical features of word identification fluency (WIF), a tool for screening and monitoring the reading development of first graders. From a potential pool of 704 first-grade students, the authors...
Curriculum-Based Measurement of Oral Reading: Quality of Progress Monitoring Outcomes
Content type: Journal Article
Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading (CBM-R) is frequently used to set student goals and monitor student progress. This study examined the quality of growth estimates derived from CBM-R progress monitoring data. The authors used a linear mixed...