| Project/Area Number |
20K14074
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 09060:Special needs education-related
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| Research Institution | University of the Ryukyus |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Project Status |
Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2020)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
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| Keywords | Teachers / Classroom managment / Behavior / FBA / classroom management |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a web-based Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) for elementary school teachers to effectively manage behavioral problems of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. A randomized-control trial (RCT) will be conducted to examine the effects.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the first year of this research, I focus on building up the web-based FBA, by attending related workshops/conferences and in close cooperation with web designers and engineers. In the meantime, a short survey to collect elementary school teachers' experiences in behavioral management in general and about working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities was created and disseminated to collect data.
I am also developing the measures to assess teachers’ knowledge and skills in FBA, and students’ behavioral outcomes, will also be developed and finalized in the first year. Students’ behavioral outcomes will include teachers’ report and independent observers (observers will not know the treatment condition of the teachers). We will soon start the observation process in some classrooms to serve as pre-test procedure.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Recruiting focus group participants and collecting observation data were quite interrupted due to COVID. Many conferences and workshop related to web development were suspended. The website development progress did not catch up as expected because there were more details and aspects of the website to consider, which made it complicated to design. It does require more communication with the web designer.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the fiscal year of 2021 I hope to catch up on completing the website development and pretest. I will also continue recruiting possible research participants (teachers and schools).
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