PHVIT9610 Single-Case Research Methods Course description

General admission requirements for the Ph.D. Degree in Health Sciences.

Students will be able to:

• give a general description of methods relevant to the collection and interpretation of data in research in behavior analysis

• discuss specific methods of data collection and their appropriateness for answering different kinds of research questions

• describe and discuss criteria for validity and reliability, and of methods of assessing them

• describe and discuss criteria for empirically supported treatment

• describe and discuss the rationale for single-case research designs

• produce graphical presentations of data

• briefly outline the history of basic and applied single-case research

• describe different recording techniques and their application criteria

• describe different strategies for dealing with variability in data

• discuss criteria for selecting behavior to assess (social, clinical, organizational, and personal significance)

• discuss basic principles for selecting an appropriate baseline

• describe criteria for deciding the length of baseline as well as intervention phases

• discuss the use of pilot studies

• give an account of the principle of changing one variable at a time, and exceptions to that principle

• discuss criteria for using different types of withdrawal designs

• give examples and explain the difference between withdrawal and reversal designs

• give examples of the use of multiple baseline designs and alternating treatment designs

• give examples of direct, systematic, and clinical replication procedures

• conduct visual and statistical analysis of the effect of independent variables in single-case research designs

Please see detailed course plan below.

• All papers approved,
• attendance in at least 80 % of the seminars, and
• approved paper presentation in final seminar.

Portfolio.

Portfolio requirements: 2 PowerPoint presentations on specific topics from student classroom presentations

All

Pass / Fail

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