An evaluation of preference stability within MSWO preference assessments for children with autism.

Autor: Melanson IJ; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Thomas AL; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Brodhead MT; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Sipila-Thomas ES; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Miranda DRG; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Plavnick JB; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Joy TA; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., Fisher MH; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA., White-Cascarilla AN; Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of applied behavior analysis [J Appl Behav Anal] 2023 Jun; Vol. 56 (3), pp. 638-655. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 11.
DOI: 10.1002/jaba.988
Abstrakt: Previous research has commonly evaluated preference stability over time and across multiple preference assessment administrations. No studies have evaluated shifts in preference across consecutive rounds of a single preference assessment, where rounds refer to each time the experimenter resets the stimulus-presentation array. The purpose of the present study was to examine the stability of stimulus selections across successive rounds of a multiple-stimulus-without-replacement (MSWO) preference assessment with different classes of stimuli for children with autism. The study involved a secondary data analysis and calculation of preference stability across consecutive rounds using Spearman rank-order correlation coefficients (Spearman's ρ ) for 17 participants across 40 MSWO preference assessments. Patterns of preference stability were observed in 24 out of the 40 assessments (60%) indicating that children's preferences in this study were slightly more likely to be classified as stable than other observed patterns of responding.
(© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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