Designing and implementing a new model for functional behavior assessments incorporating positive behavioral supports at a Native American middle school
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- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- John Habel
Abstract: The 1997 and 2004 reauthorizations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) have mandated the use of functional behavioral assessments and recommended the implementation of positive behavioral supports when developing behavior intervention plans for students exhibiting problem behaviors. However, functional behavioral assessments are traditionally based primarily on a behaviorist perspective, which overlooks the internal or cognitive processes operating within the student. The current study was conducted in order to design and implement a new model for conducting functional behavioral assessments based on a constructivist approach, which is derived from the ecological model of viewing student behavior and takes into account external as well as internal processes when assessing student behavior. In order to design behavior intervention plans incorporating positive behavioral supports, it is necessary to assess student behavior using a constructivist approach as well as a behaviorist approach. The study was conducted in a Native American Middle School in the South Eastern United States. The constructivist approach is more aligned with the cultural beliefs of the Native Americans than is the behaviorist approach.
Designing and implementing a new model for functional behavior assessments incorporating positive behavioral supports at a Native American middle school
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Behavior, Constructivist, Education, FBA, Middle School, School Psychology
- Subjects
- Classroom management -- North Carolina -- Cherokee
- School discipline -- North Carolina -- Cherokee
- Constructivism (Education) -- North Carolina -- Cherokee
- Cherokee Indians -- Education
- Problem children -- Functional assessment -- North Carolina -- Cherokee