Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
Degree Granting Department
Child and Family Studies
Major Professor
Raymond Miltenberger, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kwang-Sun Cho Blair, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kimberly Crosland, Ph.D.
Keywords
feedback, medication, safety skills, website
Abstract
Researchers have found that behavioral skills training (BST) is often an effective strategy when teaching safety skills to children and adults with and without developmental disabilities. Despite BST being an effective intervention to teach safety skills, it requires substantial time from trained behavior analysts to implement with fidelity. Trainee-implemented BST may allow many children to access high-quality safety skills training while not requiring the presence of a behavior analyst. A web-based module may be a cost-effective and easily accessible option for parents, teachers, or Registered Behavior Technicians to teach children these safety skills. The researcher used a nonconcurrent multiple baseline across participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based training to teach behavior analysis students to implement BST to teach medication safety skills to children with developmental disabilities. The web-based training was effective at increasing treatment fidelity of one student up to at least 90% fidelity across three consecutive sessions, while two other participants required feedback to reach mastery criterion.
Scholar Commons Citation
Gray, Kate N., "Evaluating a Web-Based Training to Teach Behavioral Analysis Students to Implement Behavioral Skills Training" (2025). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/10953
