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Ball State University offers online graduate programs in applied behavior analysis and special education with focus in autism. Our ABA course sequence is verified by ABAI and meet the course work requirements to take the BCBA exam. Study at your own pace with 8-week and 16-week formats.
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What Does it Take to Scale up and Sustain Evidence-Based Practices?
Content type: Journal Article
This article discusses the strategic scaling up of evidence-based practices. The authors draw from the scholarly work of fellow special education researchers and from the field of learning sciences. The article defines scaling up as the process by which...
Meeting the Linguistic Needs of High-Potential English Language Learners
Content type: Journal Article
The population of English language learners (ELLs) in regular classrooms has been increasing over the last few decades. However, ELLs are still underrepresented in gifted programs and teachers struggle to provide these students with adequate educational...
To Adapt or Not to Adapt
Content type: Journal Article
When implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs), experts assert adaptations (deliberate or accidental changes to EBPs) are an inevitable part of the implementation process. Some adaptations are undesirable and should be avoided. Others, however, may...
Navigating Common Challenges and Pitfalls in the First Years of Special Education
Content type: Journal Article
Beginning special education teachers can face a number of challenges. Specifically, beginning special educators (a) have insufficient preparation in certain areas, (b) encounter school-prescribed practices or professional cultures that differ from their...
Comparing Validity and Reliability in Special Education Title II and IDEA Data
Content type: Journal Article
Previous researchers have found that special education teacher shortages are pervasive and exacerbated by federal policies regarding “highly qualified” teacher requirements. The authors examined special education teacher personnel data from 2 federal data...
Evaluating Special Educator Effectiveness
Content type: Journal Article
States are increasingly using value-added approaches to evaluate teacher effectiveness. There is much debate regarding whether these methods should be employed and, if employed, what role such methods should play in comprehensive teacher evaluation systems...
Unequal Opportunities
Content type: Journal Article
This study profiles the qualifications and preparation of special educators from the 2003–2004 Schools and Staffing Survey and investigates their relationship with teaching in a high-poverty school. Based on Berne and Stiefel’s (1984) equal opportunity...
Is Performance Feedback for Educators an Evidence-Based Practice? A Systematic Review and Evaluation Based on Single-Case Research
Content type: Journal Article
Optimal levels of treatment fidelity, a critical moderator of intervention effectiveness, are often difficult to sustain in applied settings. It is unknown whether performance feedback, a widely researched method for increasing educators’ treatment...
Impact of Enhanced Anchored Instruction in Inclusive Math Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics will place more pressure on special education and math teachers to raise the skill levels of all students, especially those with disabilities in math (MD). The purpose of this study was to assess the effects...
Too Stressed to Teach? Teaching Quality, Student Engagement, and IEP Outcomes
Content type: Journal Article
Teacher stress and burnout have a detrimental effect on the stability of the teaching workforce. However, the possible consequences of teacher burnout on teaching quality and on student learning outcomes are less clear, especially in special education...