FBA-based interventions show potentially positive effects on school engagement for children identified with or at risk for an emotional disturbance¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across 34 single-case design experiments in the school engagement domain, 74% documented a positive effect and none documented a negative effect, yielding a potentially positive effects rating. → What Works Clearinghouse 2016

Evidence¶

What Works Clearinghouse 2016¶

What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (2016). Functional Behavioral Assessment-based Interventions: Children Identified With or At Risk for an Emotional Disturbance. WWC Intervention Report. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/667

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

The WWC's systematic review of single-case design studies, using visual analysis of each experiment, found that "25 experiments (74%) documented a positive effect" for school engagement, with zero negative effects, supporting a rating of potentially positive effects.

"Across the 34 single-case design experiments, 25 experiments (74%) documented a positive effect, and no single-case design experiments documented a negative effect."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do interventions chosen from a functional assessment of a learner's behavior improve that learner's behavior and engagement? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 3 narrower claims that bear on it: 3 distinct studies (1 quant-synthesis, 1 review, 1 causal), q2–q3, 0 of 3 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

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