SCORE IT is an app that provides students with a simple way to self-monitor their behaviors. A study was done recently, in 2016, that trained both a general education teacher and three 11 year old students with either a diagnosis of ADHD or labeled at-risk by the school, to increase academic engagement. Students were prompted by the app every 10 minutes to respond via the iPad to specific questions of on-task behaviors such as, am I being respectful? The students had the choice of rating themselves from 0-4. At the end of each class students and the teacher reviewed their scores for immediate feedback. All three students had a baseline of academic engagement (on-task) between 20-40% on average. During the intervention all three students were successfully engaged 80-100% of each class hour. The students had become aware of how they were spending their time during class and greatly improved their on-task behavior. After the intervention was complete both girls were able to discontinue use of the app and still achieve high academic engagement. The male student kept using the app to achieve successful academic engagement. It is important to note that the male student had the lowest baseline and at some point might be able to discontinue use of the app. The implications for use of this app is practicality, nearly every school in America has an iPad or access to one, adding the app is simple. Questions within the app for self-monitoring can be changed to use for specific behaviors. The students were also not yet on an IEP, this is a great intervention to teach students skills before they need to be put on an IEP. This saves the Sped teacher time and paperwork to devote to other students. Lastly, the students involved in this study were only 11. They responded well to this intervention and the teacher reported that use of the app during class did not disrupt or distract her class even though that was a fear before the study began. The article: Vogelgesang, K. L., Bruhn, A. L., Coghill-Behrends, W. L., Kern, A. M., & Troughton, L. C. W. (2016). A Single-Subject Study of a Technology-Based Self-Monitoring Intervention. Journal of Behavioral Education, 25(4), 478–497. I will include a slideshow with the same information presented visually.
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