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Improving a Behavior Plan for a High School Special Education Student 1

Improving a Behavior Plan for a High School Special Education Student

Kelly Flynn

Dallastown Area High School

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Table of Contents

ABSTRACT 3

INTRODUCTION 4

Rationale for the Study

Statement of the Problem

Primary Research Questions

Hypothesis

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 6

METHODOLOGY 12

Research Design

Data Collection Plan

Sample Selection

Instruments

RESULTS 14

Presentation of Data

Discussion of Findings

Limitations of the Study

Summary

Further Research

ACTION PLAN 27

CONCLUSIONS 28


Table of Contents (cont.)

REFERENCES 30

APPENDIX A 33

APPENDIX B 34

APPENDIX C 35

APPENDIX D 36

Abstract

Incorporating a behavior plan in a high school setting is always a challenging endeavor.

This paper tracks a goal-driven “signature sheet” that one student carried from class to class. At

the end of each class the teacher signed off on the sheet if the student reached the goal, or refused

to sign the sheet if the goal was not met. Data was collected through teacher surveys, weekly

grades, student behavior log, student interviews, and data derived from the signature sheets

themselves. An interesting aspect of the study was that there were no incentives attached to the

signature collection process. The hypothesis was that by incorporating a checklist, the student’s

behavior and time on task will improve, because the student will have sufficient reminders about

their goals . The results were mixed, but the signature sheet did serve as a method to get

feedback from teachers and to monitor progress.


Introduction

Rationale for the Study

A learning support student with a behavior plan at Dallastown Area High School was not

an active member in the implementation and process of the behavior plan. The plan was

developed and implemented by an Individual Education Program (IEP) team, which

consisted of teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents. The student was then

informed of the plan by being told that goals were developed to change their behavior, and

that they would be monitored, measured, and graphed on a weekly basis. The problem was

that at that point, the student was not necessarily actively involved in the plan. When and to

what extent the student gets feedback was at the learning support teacher’s discretion.

When it comes to changing behavior, the student not only has to want to change, but also

needs constant refocusing. Students often get swept up in the moment and lose focus on

agreed upon behavior goals. There was no system in place where the students with behavior

plans were given the necessary reminders of that plan. In other words, the student was often

disconnected from the process, and was not an active participant.

Some critical factors were the lack of reminders for the student that an agreed-upon

behavior plan existed, the lack of feedback given to students pertaining to the goals of their

plan, and the transition to new goals once the behavior plan has proved successful.

Something needed to be put in place systematically to address these issues.


Statement of the Problem

The student was having problems academically and behaviorally, so the learning support

teacher initiated a formal observation by a qualified staff member. During the observation,

the student was observed to be on task 60% of the time, while the other 40% he either had his

head down, doodled, socialized with others, or stared into space. The student recently had a

behavior plan added to his Individual Education Plan (IEP) in the form of a Positive

Behavior Support Plan (PBSP). In the plan, two critical aspects of behavior were identified:

argumentative behavior and refusal to complete tasks. The problem was that once the

behavior plan was put in place, the student did not have sufficient reminders of his goals.

Research Questions

1. What is the effect of a tangible, student-controlled, checklist on behavior and work

completion?

2. How does increasing student involvement in the process improve the student’s

outlook on the process?

Data was first collected by e-mail in the form of questions to teachers. The questions

would measure the student’s occurrences of argumentative behavior and percentage of on-task


behavior. After four weeks of data collection, a checklist was incorporated into the study that

had teachers measure the same data – occurrences of argumentative behavior and percentage of

on-task behavior. This checklist was carried by the student and signed by each teacher at the

conclusion of class.

Hypothesis

The hypothesis was that by incorporating a checklist, the student’s behavior and time on

task would improve. This would occur because the student was reminded of his goals, would feel he is

part of the process, and would achieve a sense of accomplishment.

Review of the Literature

Goals and Reinforcers

A study by Wheatly (2009) called Improving Behavior Through Differential Reinforcement: a

Praise Note System for Elementary School Students demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple

behavior management system, and set the framework for the application of similar systems. The

study focused on increasing appropriate behaviors in an elementary school lunchroom, and the

interventions consisted of 1) teaching specific appropriate behaviors 2) providing opportunities


for students to practice skills, and 3) implementing a Praise Note system to reward students for

behaving appropriately. Students were taught appropriate behaviors, and the school staff was

trained to recognize and reward students who kept the lunchroom clean, sat appropriately in their

seats, and walked in the lunchroom. Data showed significant decreases for each of three target

behaviors.

Even though this study focused on an elementary school lunchroom, there are concepts

applicable to the research project. The idea of a “token reinforcer” such as a Praise Note

system is a significant part of the modification in the student’s behavior program. Token

reinforcers are “symbolic representations exchangeable for some reinforce of value to students.”

(556)

The study by Fabiano (2007) was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and

the Department of Education. It studied 48 students age 5-12 diagnosed with ADHD in a

summer school setting. It studied the effects of three levels of behavior modifications – no

modifications, low modifications and high modifications. The article defined all three levels of

modification, where no modifications included only negative feedback for negative behavior,

low modifications included verbal praise, weekly rewards, and a daily report card, and high

modifications included daily feedback and daily rewards. The article showed that behavior

improved in every category (number of detentions, number of redirections, teacher stress level,

etc.) the higher the modifications, even for a placebo group.

The article stressed daily report cards, which were reviewed with parents to “provide

daily and weekly home based rewards contingent on positive performance.” (200) Also,


“Programs typically targeted academic seatwork completion, rule-following behavior, or both.”

(201) This research project focused on daily reinforcement, and targeted both work completion

and rule following as the two most important pieces of data collected.

Effective Behavior Support

A study by Lewis and Sugai (1999) introduced Effective Behavioral Support (EBS), which is a

“systems approach for addressing the full continuum of behavioral challenges found in schools.”

(9) The article focused on a team approach to addressing student behavior, administrator and

teacher supports, assessments of disciplinary practices, data-based decision making, and action

planning. This study was comprehensive and revolved around the functional behavior

assessment and other school-wide behavior plans. Of particular interest in this study was the

emphasis on monitoring and data collection: “When behavior support plans are implemented, a

strategy for monitoring the impact of the plan likewise must be implemented. The monitoring

strategy should involve collecting and analyzing regular, direct measures of the intervention on

the behaviors of concern.” (9) The point of the action research is to see how a concrete,

physical, checklist-based system will affect the student’s behavior.


Positive Strategies

The text Positive Strategies for Students with Behavior Problems (2008) provided a step-

by-step process and strategies for implementing a student behavior plan from start to finish. The

text provided tips for data collection, team building, developing a hypothesis, and mentoring. It

also provided an appendix with 26 pages of worksheets that included style assessments, data

charts, and behavioral checklists. The book did a good job of staying current, as it addressed

prevalent problems all too common in classrooms today: “For a teen with inadequate

supervision, limited perseverance, and few positive role models, adolescence brings great

temptation. The teenager might affiliate with marginal or deviant peers and respond to those

social models.” (30)

This action research project focused on a special education student, and the text did a

good job of explaining the steps involved in formulating special education paperwork, such as

the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) and Support Plan (PBSP in many schools, PBS in

the text). The text gave tips and strategies for data collection, particularly when it came to

monitoring replacement behaviors.

Functional Behavior Assessments

A study by McIntosh (2007) focused on functional behavior assessments (FBAs). Recent

research has demonstrated its effectiveness in general education settings, and current research is

providing insight into procedures that can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of functional

behavior assessments and function-based support in typical school settings. In this article the


authors provide six guidelines for effective functional behavior assessments and support in

school settings.

When the research in this study began, an FBA and PBSP (positive behavior support

plan) had already been developed for the student. This article questioned whether a checklist

type system will work with an older, more aware student like the student in this study: “Critics

argue that simple contingency based interventions (rewarding desired behavior and punishing

problem behavior) are unlikely to be effective with sophisticated students who engage in

complex problem behavior.” (39) A major concern was that the student in this study is a more

sophisticated student who may look at the intended modifications to his behavior plan as

“gimmicky” or a method to control him.

Self Monitoring

Jennifer B. Ganz (2008) presented research on self-monitoring as it has to do with

positive behavioral support for children with disabilities. Included are steps, examples, and

recommendations when it comes to self-monitoring. In particular was the emphasis that rewards

and reinforcement are especially effective: “Students with disabilities often willingly engage in

the strategy of self-monitoring because they recognize the value of participating and earning

concrete reinforcement.” (39)


Of particular interest were the methods of implementation, especially when it came to the

use of concrete materials such as self-monitoring cards, checklists used to self-monitor, and the

observations that “higher functioning and older students can use paper-based systems.” (43) The

student in this study was an older student with a disability (ADHD), and was high functioning.

Another interesting aspect of the research was that just the act of self-monitoring can lead to

improvement: “..participants often improved targeted behaviors even when they did not

accurately self-monitor or record the frequency of those behaviors.” (39)

Conclusion

The book by Janney (2008) also describes how to implement a behavioral support plan

from start to finish. It provided plans and strategies for implementing school-wide plans as well

as individual plans. It stressed non punishment-based interventions because “punishment-based

interventions clearly show their limited effectiveness on generalization and maintenance of

behavior improvements.” (4)

The text incorporated a design where the student was involved with the process. It

stressed talking with the student about what they feel are the antecedents to the problem

behavior, as well as “their goals, interests, and feelings.” (120)


Methodology

Research Design

The research design included collecting data under the prevailing system, which is to e-

mail the student’s teachers weekly and ask for feedback regarding the student’s goals, and then

transition to the signature sheet system, where the student has his goals signed off by teachers

daily. The data was then turned in to the learning support teacher on a weekly basis. In addition

to the signature sheet data, the learning support teacher got feedback from the teachers through

an internet survey website and feedback from the student through an interview process. The

student’s grades and behavior log was submitted in real time by teachers and administrators on a

database that could be accessed by the learning support teacher.

Data Collection Plan

Data was collected via weekly e-mails for four weeks from January 17 through February

11. The transition to a signature sheet was made for the four weeks of February 14 through

March 11. Throughout the process, the learning support teacher was able to directly observe the

student daily during the student’s Algebra 2 class. During this time, the learning support teacher

took the role of Active Participant Observer. According to Mills, this means the teacher of the


class, was able to qualitatively assess student progress, but didn’t necessarily “have time to

record observations in a systematic way.” (75)

After the e-mail and signature sheet data was collected, the teachers received surveys in

an attempt to get feedback concerning the signature sheet process. The surveys were sent by e-

mail to all the student’s teachers as well as any paraprofessionals that dealt with the student. The

online tool www.surveymonkey.com was used. At the same time, a student interview was

conducted to see how the student felt about the process.

There were several people involved in this project besides the learning support teacher,

the student, the student’s teachers and counselors. One collaborator was the head of the

Learning Support department. She has several years of experience implementing behavior plans,

and had a student on a behavior plan as well. A fellow Learning Support teacher had technical

expertise and many ideas of how to present the data. He was also able to validate the data.

Another collaborator was the assistant Principal, who had experience with field projects and

action research. He was the administrator who approved the action research and offered advice

and support.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Sample Selection

The subject in this research project is one 10th grade learning support student. What made

this student unique is that he had a history of behavior problems, most of which involved class

misconduct, violation of school rules, and cutting assigned detentions. The most severe


infraction involved threatening a teacher, which led to an out of school suspension and the

behavior plan that generated this research.

Instruments

Data was collected via weekly e-mails for four weeks using the format found in

Appendix A. The transition to a signature sheet (Appendix B) was created for the four weeks

following. Teachers and paraprofessionals who dealt with the student received surveys

(Appendix C) through www.surveymonkey.com to get feedback about the signature sheet

process. A survey results page is shown in APPENDIX D. A question and answer interview

was conducted by the learning support teacher with the student to get student feedback.

Results

Presentation of the Data

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

GRAPH 1 below shows the average number of times per week the student was NOT on

task at least 80% of the time, the average number of times the student was argumentative, and

the average number of times the student had to be redirected for the four weeks data was

collected via e-mail and the four weeks data was collected through the signature sheet.


GRAPH 1

Week of 1/17

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Week of 1/31

Week of 2/7

transition to signature sheet

Week of 2/14

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Teacher surveys were sent out after the above data was collected to get teacher feedback

as what they saw regarding the transition from weekly e-mails to the daily signature sheet. The

results for each question are shown below (GRAPH 2 to GRAPH 5).


GRAPH 2

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Grades were posted into a database weekly by teachers and are were accessible by school

staff and parents. The following graphs are broken down by subject, showing grades after a

behavior plan was put in place and grades after the signature sheet was implemented.

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The learning support teacher was able to get a behavior log for the student from the Dean

of students. The behavior log went all the way back through middle school. For the sake of this

study, only infractions made this year are presented below (CHART 1). There is a split in the

graph after January 11th to show when the e-mail data from the teachers began. There is also a

break after January 28th to show infractions after the signature sheet was put in place.


CHART 1

Date detention Incident

9/16/2010 detention violation of school rules

11/1/2010 detention class misconduct


11/3/2010 ISS class misconduct

11/4/2010 detention profanity

12/3/2010 detention violation of school rules

12/8/2010 ISS class misconduct

12/17/2010 OSS threatening


1/11/2011 detention cut detention

Behavior Plan implemented.

1/25/2011 detention tardy

1/26/2011 detention cut detention

1/28/2011 ISS cut detention

Signature Sheet implemented.

2/16/2011 detention missed homework/classwork


Discussion of Findings

The learning support teacher interviewed the student in a question and answer format.

The student’s responses were inconclusive and contradictory. When asked if the signature sheet

had a positive effect on work completion, the student responded no, but then acknowledged that

the signature sheet served as a reminder of his behavior goals and made him feel more involved

in the process of achieving his goals.

How much the signature sheet leads to the student actually reaching stated goals is

unclear. The surveys given to the teachers who dealt with the student on a day to day basis either

responded that they saw a slight change in time on task, or no change. When it came to overall

behavior, the respondent’s answers were equally distributed among the categories of a significant

positive change, a slight positive change, and no change. Some grades improved after the

signature sheet was put in place, while some grades went down.

The bright side of the data is that after the behavior plan and signature sheet procedure

was implemented, the student’s major disciplinary referrals went way down. More importantly,

the nature of the disciplinary referrals changed from major offenses such as class misconduct,

threatening, and language to more minor offenses such as tardiness and missing homework.

Although none of the goals on the behavior plan were reached, there was improvement towards

these goals over time.

An unforeseen result of the research was a change of placement for the student. The student had

wanted an alternative placement in an after school program called Twilight since the


beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. When the learning support teacher looked into a

change of placement for the student, the school administrator in charge of such placements

denied the request, stating that the program was not for students with disciplinary problems. His

reasoning was that students with discipline problems did not fare well in the Twilight program.

This administrator happened to be the same administrator who acted as mentor in this

research study. At the conclusion of the study, the administrator opened up the possibility of a

change of placement for the student, telling the learning support teacher that he would withdraw

the student and enroll him in Twilight if the learning support teacher thought it was in the best

interest of the student. The student was in fact transferred to the Twilight program.

Limitations of study

The research focused on one student, which provided simplicity, but limited the study in

several ways. It is difficult to make predictions based on the variability (or lack of variability) of

such a small sample size, especially when it is a teenager in a school setting. Who knows what a

teenager will do at any point in time? With a larger sample size, the learning support teacher

could have validated the data and perhaps come to more reliable conclusions. The study also

lacked a control, which could have been provided by keeping the control student on the e-mail

version of the behavior plan throughout the whole study.

There were other limitations to having only one student involved in this research. The

learning support teacher was not able to get desired parental support, as the parent did not return

several phone calls and did not attend the meeting when the behavior plan was created. The


student was occasionally absent and sometimes either forgot the signature sheet at home or

forgot to get it signed at the conclusion of class.

Summary

There was no real down side to signature sheet as a modified instrument to track

behavior. Although half the teachers responded there was no change, none indicated a negative

change, and some indicated a positive change. Overall, the signature sheet benefitted the student

and the special education teacher, and the end result was an alternative placement for the student.

The signature sheet dramatically decreased the incidence of what would be considered major

behavioral infractions by the student, and it led to behavior changes by the teachers and

administrators, as there was an increased level of communication and teamwork.

Further Research

To continue this research, the study would have to be conducted with more students,

perhaps over a longer period of time. Initial results show that this signature sheet approach has

promise and is worth pursuing.


Action Plan

Action Plan in Process

One solution is to incorporate a signature sheet in all behavior plans. The author of this study

has already decided to do this for several reasons. One is that there is a need to collect more

data. The study was limited to one student, and more research needs to be done. Another reason

is that the signature sheet puts responsibility in the hands of the student, as the student is

responsible for getting teacher feedback. This gives the student several daily opportunities to get

teacher feedback, many times positive feedback, and lessens the burden on data collection solely

on the special education teacher. The signature sheets also help regular education teachers, as

they too are reminded that there is a behavior plan in place. The signature sheet has also led to a

greater amount of interaction between the special education teacher and the regular education

teachers.

Future Action Plan

The action plan is to present the results of the action plan to the special education department

at the school. The Special Education department at the high school meets periodically to discuss

issues, and there is always time set aside during school inservice for department meetings. The

learning support teacher will make a Powerpoint presentation showing the process, results of the

research, and the advantages to incorporating a signature sheet to behavior plans.


There are some things the learning support teacher could do immediately to get this done.

One would be to talk with the head of the Special Education department so that time is set aside

for the presentation. Since this study is ongoing until the student officially transfers to

alternative education, this will be at an inservice towards the end of the school year. Another

step would be to get the student to write up a letter in support of the signature sheet. This could

be added to the presentation. One final step would be to get administrative support, which

should not be difficult, as one vice-Principal served as mentor to this project. The learning

support teacher plans to pass by the idea of presenting the findings to the department in an effort

to get feedback and garnish additional support.

Conclusion

The signature sheet was an instrument that improved communication between teacher and

student, learning support teacher and regular education teacher, and learning support teacher and

administration. For the student, the signature sheet made the data tangible, and it was a daily

reminder that there was a plan in place. It also provided a chance for teachers to give the student

feedback at the end of class, much of which was positive feedback. Once the signature sheet was

in place, the student’s behavior generally improved, but his time on task and resulting grades

were mixed.

The signature sheet made the learning support teacher’s job a lot easier. By making the

student partially responsible for collecting the data, the special education teacher did not have to


send out weekly mass e-mails to teachers and then sort the responses. The data was collected

daily by the student on one signature sheet document. The data could be analyzed much easier at

the end of each week. The learning support teacher also found that teachers were seeking him

out to give feedback. This was a welcome and positive change.

Perhaps the most dramatic result of the research was the increase in communication

between special educator and administration. By seeking out the help of an administrator in

regard to the research, the special education teacher gained an ally in regard to the behavior plan.

This led to an alternative placement for the student.


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APPENDIX A E-MAILED FEEDBACK FORM TO TEACHERS

Weekly Behavior Plan for _____________.

Directions: Please complete the following chart by typing “YES” or “NO” in the following boxes.

Please put the NUMBER OF TIMES __________ was redirected, and definitely note if he was argumentative.

Please send this email back to me by Friday, February 4th at Noon.

This chart is a record of behavior from Friday—Thursday.

Goal

_______will complete tasks and comply with teacher requests 80% of the time on a daily basis.

Comments:

Goal

__________ will not display argumentative behavior.

Comments:

*Please include the number of times ________ needed to be redirected, even if it was as minor as “_______, stop talking”, or “Please get to work”.

Comments:

If you have any questions or concerns please email the support teacher.


Appendix B Weekly Signature Sheet


APPENDIX C Survey Monkey Questionnaire

APPENDIX D Survey Monkey Results Page

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