Describe and provide an example of how you would evaluate

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Situation

You are a behavioral specialist for a rural school district in West Texas. You have been called in to help a teacher work with a student who is falling behind his peers because his behavior in the classroom is interfering with his learning.

Freddy is a 9-yr-old boy who has cerebral palsy. He is placed in an integrated elementary school classroom, and has a full-time paraprofessional assigned to work with him during the school day. His classroom teacher has never had a student who has cerebral palsy in her class before, but she is willing to try anything you recommend. While Freddy is a generally happy young boy he often struggles to complete hands-on assignments and to engage in appropriate playground interactions with his peers. During instructional time, while his classmates are cuttings out maps, pasting pictures, building a model, or completing writing assignments, he will sulk alone in the corner, refuse to answer questions from the teacher, and shove any work placed in front of him away. The only time he even attempts to complete any work is if his paraprofessional does all of the work for him and only makes him describe what he would do. This is a concern for everyone since if Freddy won't engage with lessons, he is going to struggle worse and fall further behind as time goes by.

You decide to collect some baseline data to determine the extent of the problem Freddy is having in the classroom.

(1) Label and write a behavioral definition for one of Freddy's behaviors that are interfering with his academic success.

(2) Label and write a behavioral definition for one behavior that Freddy should be engaging in to increase his academic success.

(3) Describe a method for measuring one of Freddy's behaviors you defined above. Label the behavior you are measuring and describe the measurement system in sufficient detail so that the teacher or the paraprofessional could use it.

(4) Describe and provide an example of how you would evaluate and calculate the reliability of the measurement system you have described in question 3.

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