PO498: Conducting Instruction-Based Concurrent Operant Assessments to Increase Engagement

  • PMD: 1,4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand the research base supporting concurrent operant assessments (COAs);
  2. learn how to conduct an instruction-based concurrent operant assessment (IB-COA) to increase students’ engagement; and
  3. understand how they can use the results of IB-COAs to develop interventions.

Description

This poster describes instruction-based concurrent operant assessments (IB-COA) and how to use them to increase students’ engagement. Participants will learn how to implement IB-COAs and use results to develop interventions.

Presenter(s)

Sarah G. Hermann, UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute
Kathryn E. McCulloch, University of Nebraska Omaha
Krystal M. Febus, University of Nebraska Omaha

Contributor(s)

Brenda J. Bassingthwaite, Sara S. Kupzyk, Adam D. Weaver

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