SPED 7740 Advanced Research to Practice

This course will provide teachers with an opportunity to apply research-based best practices to effect a change in academic and pro-social behavior of students receiving special education and increase access to general curriculum. All field-based research projects will be reviewed by the instructor for compliance with the University policy regarding human subjects with further review by the Institutional Review Board as needed. Therefore, all candidates involved in research with human subjects should become thoroughly familiar with the University guidelines and procedures to protect human subjects, researchers and the University.

Credits

3

Typically Offered

fall, spring

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of terminology, measurement techniques, monitoring designs, technology, and graphic procedures.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of intervention procedures for the increase and decrease of targeted behaviors in a variety of settings. Effective intervention will be selected based on research on best practice with regard to the operationalized identification of targeted behaviors or content and the pre-intervention data.
3. Identify research designs used in current experiments of intervention.
4. Identify and apply interventions to targeted behavior or learning problems, collect and analyze data, determine if a functional relationship exists, and determine if a new intervention should be applied.