This book will be written primarily for graduate students, advanced
undergraduates, and professionals in the fields of school
psychology, special education, and other areas of education, as
well as the health professions. We see the book as being a viable
textbook for courses in research design, applied statistics,
applied behavioral analysis, and practicum, among others. We would
not assume of the readers any prior knowledge about single subjects
designs, nor any prior statistical experience. We will provide an
introductory chapter devoted to basic statistical concepts,
including measures of central tendency (e.g., mean, median, mode),
measures of variation (e.g., variance, standard deviation, range,
inter-quartile range), correlation, frequency distributions, and
effect sizes. In addition, given that the book will rely heavily on
R software, the introductory chapter will also devote attention to
the basics of using the software for organizing data, conducting
basic statistical analyses, and for graphics. The R commands used
to carry out these analyses will be largely automated so that users
will only need to define the range for their data, and then enter
it into the R spreadsheet. We envision these tools being available
on the book website, with instructions for using them available in
the book itself. We envision the book as being useful either as a
primary text for a course in educational research designs, school
psychology practicum, applied behavioral analysis, special
education, or applied statistics. We also anticipate that
individuals working in schools, school districts, mental health
facilities, hospitals, applied behavioral analysis clinics, and
evaluation organizations, as well as faculty members needing a
practical resource for single subject design research, will all
serve as a market for the book. In short, the readership would
include graduate students, faculty members, teachers,
psychologists, social workers, counselors, medical professionals,
applied behavioral analysis professionals, program evaluators, and
others whose work focuses on monitoring changes in individuals,
particularly as the result of specific treatment conditions. We
believe that this book could be marketed through professional
organizations such as the American Educational Research Association
(AERA), the National Association of School Psychologists, the
National Association of Special Education Teachers, the Association
for Professional Behavior Analysis, the American Psychological
Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, and
the American Evaluation Association. Within AERA, the following
special interest groups would have particular interest in this
book: Action Research, Classroom Observation, Disability Studies in
Education, Mixed Methods Research, Qualitative Research, and
Special Education Research. The book could also be marketed to
state departments of education and their special education and
school psychology divisions. Currently, many state departments of
education require documentation for Response to Intervention (RtI)
and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) procedures for
individual students. The method taught in this proposed book would
allow educators and student support personnel to document the
effectiveness of interventions systematically and accurately.
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