Participants and Setting
The participants of this study involved 25 Year 7 mixed-ability students with 11 boys and 14 girls. The classroom was very diverse with students from different backgrounds including Arabic, South-East Asian and African. No ESL students were there in the class. The school timetable was on a fortnightly rotation with 8 scheduled Science lessons (4 in each week). Each period was fifty minutes in duration except Mondays where each period is shortened to 45 min. All 25 students participated in the study and the data was collected. However, I also made a sub-group of 12 target students that represented the whole class with lower-ability students, moderate ability students and higher-ability students. This grouping was done based on my observations, student past results and my supervising teacher’s advice. This sub-grouping was done with intention of negating absenteeism issues and collect reliable individual data throughout the study.
Materials
The students used a mixture of laminated cards and small whiteboards along with marker pens during the intervention stage. Laminated cards were made using Manilla …show more content…
ABA research design is a valid withdrawal design where one intervention phase combines with one or more baseline phases to make inferences on the effects of the intervention on the specific learning need (Bloom, Fischer, & Orme, 2006). During condition A, students were expected to raise their hands and wait for the teacher to call them by name to respond to his/her question where as in condition B, the students were expected to write their responses to the question asked on the RC provided and hold it up when instructed to do so (Christle and Schuster, 2003, p.
The participants of this study involved 25 Year 7 mixed-ability students with 11 boys and 14 girls. The classroom was very diverse with students from different backgrounds including Arabic, South-East Asian and African. No ESL students were there in the class. The school timetable was on a fortnightly rotation with 8 scheduled Science lessons (4 in each week). Each period was fifty minutes in duration except Mondays where each period is shortened to 45 min. All 25 students participated in the study and the data was collected. However, I also made a sub-group of 12 target students that represented the whole class with lower-ability students, moderate ability students and higher-ability students. This grouping was done based on my observations, student past results and my supervising teacher’s advice. This sub-grouping was done with intention of negating absenteeism issues and collect reliable individual data throughout the study.
Materials
The students used a mixture of laminated cards and small whiteboards along with marker pens during the intervention stage. Laminated cards were made using Manilla …show more content…
ABA research design is a valid withdrawal design where one intervention phase combines with one or more baseline phases to make inferences on the effects of the intervention on the specific learning need (Bloom, Fischer, & Orme, 2006). During condition A, students were expected to raise their hands and wait for the teacher to call them by name to respond to his/her question where as in condition B, the students were expected to write their responses to the question asked on the RC provided and hold it up when instructed to do so (Christle and Schuster, 2003, p.