Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
5-7-2020
Year of Publication
2020
Degree Name
Master of Science in Education (MSEd)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Education
Department/School/Program
Early Childhood, Special Education, and Rehabilitation Counseling
First Advisor
Dr. Melinda Jones Ault
Second Advisor
Dr. Justin D. Lane
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the differential effects of response-independent and response-dependent criteria used to determine when to increase to the next delay interval in the progressive time delay (PTD) procedure. An adapted alternating treatments design was used to evaluate the relative efficiency of two variations of the PTD procedure when teaching expressive word identification to elementary-aged boys with moderate to severe disabilities, language impairments, and reading deficits. The participants’ school was closed due to a pandemic prior to completion of the study. Therefore, conclusions about results should be considered in light of this limitation. Results obtained indicated that both variations were effective in increasing participants’ percentage of unprompted correct responses when identifying sight words. Results pertaining to the differentiation in the acquisition rates of both variations were mixed but indicated some superiority with the response-dependent variation. Results pertaining to which variation was more efficient in increasing independent performance with fewer errors were mixed and indicated that either (a) there was not a noteworthy difference in error rates between variations or (b) the response-dependent variation resulted in lower error rates. Neither variation was considerably more efficient in terms of the instructional time required to implement the procedures.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2020.161
Recommended Citation
O'Neill, Kaitlin, "Differential Effects of Criteria for Increasing Delay Intervals in Progressive Time Delay" (2020). Theses and Dissertations--Early Childhood, Special Education, and Counselor Education. 90.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsrc_etds/90
