Reference: Bicard, D.F., Erven, A., Bicard, S.C., Baylot- Casey, L. (2012). Differential effects of seating arrangements on disruptive behavior of fifth grade students during independent seatwork. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,45, 407-411.

The dependent variable is disruptive behavior. This is the behavior that is predicted to change based on the intervention.

In Keller and Schoenfeld (1950), They talk about behavior and it's relation to the environment (pg.2). Behavior is a response or reflex to a particular stimulus. The stimulus is something that comes before the behavior or response. " An environmental event becomes a stimulus by virtue of the fact that it is followed by a response" (Keller & Schoenfeld, 1950). The classroom environment can be a stimulus causing the response of disruptive behavior, in this study, or other challenging behavior. By changing the stimulus or environment, antecedent intervention, can then change the response resulting in a decrease in challenging behavior.

I think that there does not need to be much modification to the procedure itself. I think to use this intervention the classroom has to start out with individuals being allowed to seat themselves. They then should take baseline data on the disruptive behaviors and then implement an antecedent intervention of teacher selected seating to decrease disruptive behaviors.

The intervention that was used was a antecedent based intervention. That with the change in who selects the seats will determine the impact on the behavior.

Disruptive behavior were tracked using a frequency count per individual. At the end of the session the total frequency of all students behavior was then used to calculate a rate of disruptive behavior for the class as a whole.

A stimulus precedes a response and in a three term contingency that stimulus is called an antecedent. As educators we control a classroom and a classroom is an environment. Students learn within the classroom environment. Students can display challenging and disruptive behaviors within that environment. As educators how often do we consider that the classroom environment is the stimulus that is causing the response of challenging or disruptive behavior? If it is considered, how often do we consider antecedent intervention? Antecedent interventions are changes that can be made to "design environments that select adaptive behaviors" (Cooper, Heron, & Heward. 2007). By using antecedent interventions it "may help to minimize or eliminate problem behavior without the need for consequence interventions" (Bicard, Erven, Bicard, & Baylot-Casey. 2012).

Cooper, John O., Heron, Timothy E.Heward, William L.. (2007) Applied behavior analysis /Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Merrill-Prentice Hall,

Bicard, D.F., Erven, A., Bicard, S.C., Baylot- Casey, L. (2012). Differential effects of seating arrangements on disruptive behavior of fifth grade students during independent seatwork. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,45, 407-411

Hi Everyone, My name is Sierra Sanchez. I have two years clinical experience with individuals with moderate/severe disabilities. I currently hold two certifications in ABA as a registered behavior technician and a board certified autism technician. My goal is to be a BCBA and work in the schools as a Behavior analyst/ Specialist.