The Lovaas Model has no discernible effects on social-emotional development and behavior for children with disabilities¶
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q3 i? None of three social-emotional/behavior outcomes was statistically significant; one finding was substantively important but the mean effect size across outcomes was not, yielding a no-discernible-effects rating. → Lovaas Model of Applied Behavior Analysis 2010
Evidence¶
Lovaas Model of Applied Behavior Analysis 2010¶
Lovaas Model of Applied Behavior Analysis. (2010). WWC Intervention Report, U.S. Department of Education, What Works Clearinghouse. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/295
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WWC review of Sallows and Graupner (2005), which examined three outcomes in this domain. The average improvement index is +7 percentile points, with a range of +2 to +14 percentile points across findings; the domain mean fell below the substantively-important threshold.
"Although none of the impacts in this domain were statistically significant, one finding was large enough to be considered substantively important according to WWC criteria. The mean effect size across all three outcomes was not large enough to be considered substantively important"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Emotional Intelligence — outcome: instruction changes it
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The Lovaas Model has no discernible effects on social-emotional development and behavior for children with disabilities |
description |
The Lovaas Model has no discernible effects on social-emotional development and behavior for children with disabilities |
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moderate |
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2010 |
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2026-10-20 |
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