PROMPT
Imagine you are a middle school social studies teacher. It is the first week of school, and you have 28 13-year-old students in your classroom. The students have been assigned a worksheet to complete with a partner. One of your advanced students raises his hand and asks you to come over to help him with part of the worksheet. You re-word the question, and he seems satisfied with your response. But a few minutes later, he raises his hand again to ask another question. In fact, throughout the course of the 44-minute class period, he asks you a question a total of 11 times.
What is the target behavior?
What is your hypothesis for the reason why that behavior occurs? There could be several explanations. Be creative.
A few days later, you assign another worksheet to be completed with a partner. This student continues raising his hand to ask you questions about the assignment. This time, you conduct a behavioral assessment to determine what function the target behavior is serving the student.
What would be an appropriate replacement behavior (i.e., what would be appropriate for him to do instead of the target behavior)?
What kind of behavioral assessment design would you use? Why?
If you were to conduct a behavioral assessment to establish a functional relationship, what would that look like? Please be specific in your descriiption of the methods used for the functional behavioral assessment.