Week 2 Readings Presentation

1. A REVIEW OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS RESEARCH
IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Ward, P., & Barrett, T. (2002). A
review of behavior analysis research
in physical education. Journal of
Teaching in Physical Education, 21,
242- 266.
Annie Machamer

2. Type - Purpose - Framework
• Type: Review of Literature
• Purpose: To examine intervention studies in relation to the
behavioral theory
• Theoretical Framework: Reviewing multiple samples of
research on behavior analysis focusing on four parts;
preservice or inservice teacher behavior, student learning,
class management, or student learning specifically focused on
students with disabilities in adapted or inclusive settings.

3. Background and significance of study
• Background: Viewing articles that assessed the effects of behavioral
interventions in P-12 or teacher preparation settings. Studies were
organized into the four categories, observing each individually.
• Four Categories: preservice or inservice teacher behavior, student
learning, class management, student learning specifically focused on
students with disabilities in adaptive or inclusive settings.
• Significance: Describes several behavioral interventions in multiple
settings viewing different research methods. This allows us to determine
areas of improvement in implementing future research to better assess
generality, maintenance, or social validity.

4. Methods/Analysis
• The articles to be considered for this review of ABA followed a thorough
four step process of selection.
• Step 1: choosing only studies that occurred in physical education, adapted
physical education, or preservice/inservice training for teachers.
• Step 2: Coding into (a) author and date of publication, (b) number and
description of participants, (c) setting, (d) design, (e) the dependent
variable or variable, (f) independent variable or variable, (g) whether
treatment integrity was assessed, (h) whether generalization across
settings, behaviors, and participants was assessed, (i) whether
maintenance was assessed, (j) whether social validation was assessed.

5. Analysis Methods
• Step 3: Review by others to categorize done by 2 graduate
students and one co-author not involved in the selection
process
• Step 4: Agreement of review between all articles and all
participants (chart comparison of purpose of article)
• After this process was complete, 34 articles were chosen to be
applied to the ABA review.

6. Findings/Main arguments
• Majority of behavioral studies focus on interventions designed
to improve teaching behaviors.
• Most studies were systematic replications.
• Most studied intervention was peers as mediators of
instruction in both RPE and APE.

7. Conclusions/implications for practice
and/or future research
• The research has been completed by a number of researchers
in a number of areas, leading to diversity in replication
strength, which give confidence in results.
• Treatment integrity should become mandatory, and
assessment of maintenance and generality should occur more
often.
• Future research should discuss theory behind interventions
that are used in their studies.

8. Questions?
• Coaching studies were automatically eliminated from the
review of research because of the particular setting. Do you
think that viewing these studies may effect the results found?
If so how?
• The article review consisted of articles from 1970-2000. Do
you believe that this may have limited research? Is this history
of research important before 1970? Why?
• Additional questions………..?