Play the role of a behavior-consulting intern. Your company is now
working with Pathways an alternative high school. You will analyze the collected data and provide a summary
of your findings based on the scenario presented below.
Scenario: Pathways High School
Pathways is an alternative high school. Pathways allows students with behavior challenges to complete their
high school experience with a more flexible and positive approach. Their mission is to create an environment
that allows students to consistently exceed expectations, maintain high levels of student and family
satisfaction, and meet cost effectiveness standards. They strive to provide the highest education possible to
students from a variety of communities and cultural backgrounds.
Acme, Inc., assisted Pathways with the creation of individual behavior intervention plans (BIP) for students
displaying high levels of inappropriate behaviors. In addition, ACME used behavior skills training (BST) to train
all staff on the basics of ABA and how to implement each BIP.
A behavior management division headed by a full-time behavior specialist at the school is responsible for
implementing the plans that were originally created in collaboration with Pathways’ staff. In addition, Acme is
responsible for ongoing staff training and monitoring the effectiveness of each plan.
You are asked to do a follow-up to determine the success of the procedures that were put in place. In addition,
you are asked to conduct some inter-observer Agreement (IOA) probes and determine whether the staff has
maintained the skills taught during training.
You are provided with a variety of data to analyze and will need to use the data to determine the effectiveness
of the current interventions.
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