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Off Task Behavior Analysis Paper

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Comment: The results from the FAST (Functional Assessment Screening Tool) sheet show that Joey wants to obtain social reinforcement/attention (with a total score of 8 out of 8). The second highest score from the FAST sheet was social reinforcement /escape (5 out of 8) when Joey wanted to avoid requests made by others. Thirdly Joey used this behaviour (3 out of 8) to access specific activities or items. Overall, we can see from the results from the FAST sheet, as well as the ABC observation form, that during classroom instruction and individual assignments, Joey is using his off task behaviour most likely to get attention from his teacher and indirectly his classmates. In Joey’s assessment for off task behaviour, there will be no …show more content…

Joey’s reading materials will remain on his desk for the entire session and will not be removed due to off-task behavior (Shumate, Wills, 2010, p. 33). Data Collection Method: Time Based Method, Interval Recording, Whole Interval will be used to collect data as we are interested in the behaviour that occurs during the entire interval. Interval recording is flexible and provides useful data particularly for off task behaviour. It is broken down into intervals or blocks of time, and observations are marked separately for each interval. Since we would like to get Joey to be on task, we want to know how long each type of behaviour lasts (on/off), we will therefore require a method to ensure each duration. Another consideration is to make it as easy as possible since the teacher is busy and has other students to consider (ear bud, please see materials). Lastly, but importantly, we need the information to be useful to our particular situation as our goal for Joey is to be on task most or all the time. Joey’s behaviour is non-uniform so whole interval method was chosen, as it will provide better data concerning time on/off task behaviours even though this method puts more demand on the

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