| Affiliations: | Department of Educational Psychology, Special Education Program |
| Project Leader: | April Haas haas2010@tamu.edu Educational Psychology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Dr. Jay Ganz, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Wednesday 4-5 |
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Team Size:
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3 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Recommendation for graduate programs, networking, experience with diverse populations, learning about special education research and autism, learning social science research methodology. Inclusion in presentations opportunities, Possible inclusion in publication opportunities depending on individual.
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Team Needs:
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Please come help evaluate the academic progress of children with Autism as we hope to determine, when is behavior change enough to be relevant or important? We need a small group of thoughtful undergraduates interested in research participation to do two things. First, examine graphs of student progress and estimate the degree of behavior change and second individually and in small groups discuss if that amount of progress is enough to be considered small, moderate, or substantial learning. This study is about both social validity and statistical significance in a group of individuals vulnerable to inequitable opportunities in school and life. |
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Description:
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Antecedent exercise has been shown to improve behavior and academic performance in students with autism. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the quality of literature related to antecedent exercise and identify characteristics of participants, setting, and research methodology when implementing antecedent exercise. Literature will be reviewed and coded for participant details, and data will be extracted to conduct a statistical analysis to understand the effect of antecedent exercise for students with autism.
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