• Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow: Students participate in a training program to develop over a 2-year period skills in the following areas: preparing and presenting lectures; tutoring; organizing and managing student records; developing in-class exercises; supervising novice TAs and TFs, including providing guidance in lecture development, and pedagogical and other performance feedback. Students receive 1 SCH practicum credit and permanent products include copies of lectures with peer and supervisor feedback, copies of in-class exercises developed, and a log of all activities. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Sigrid Glenn (Glenn@scs.unt.edu)



• Instructional Technology Lab: The instructional technology team is developing multimedia courses for internet delivery. Activities of the team include making videotapes depicting behavioral procedures, designing and testing instructional materials, developing computer-based training and testing programs, designing data collection systems, and analyzing performance of learners. Products of the group include the instructional materials used in the courses. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Sigrid Glenn (Glenn@scs.unt.edu)



• Phoenix After-School Program: The after-school program serves African-American and Hispanic children (4 to 11-years-old), residents of the Phoenix apartment complex located in Denton, Texas. The program is sponsored by the Center for Public Service, and run by volunteers and graduate students from the Department of Behavior Analysis. Practicum training for behavior analysis students consists of identifying, designing and implementing programs for academic behavior (e.g., reading, writing, and math) that need to be taught and/or improved either in fluency, form, or stimulus control. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (Rosales@scs.unt.edu)

• Behavior Analysis Resource Center (BARC) practicum program: BARC provides contracted caseload services for 80 residents of the Denton State School, with approximately 60 active Behavior Intervention Programs. BARC staff participates as fully recognized members of interdisciplinary teams and provide a wide range of behavioral services. Among the competencies developed during this practicum opportunity are: functional assessment of behavior, behavior program development/data analysis, staff training and management, annual comprehensive plan development, review, and revision, monthly progress notes and graphic data displays, and presenting behavioral education/treatment plans at peer review and human rights committee meetings for approval. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Richard Smith (Rsmith@scs.unt.edu)



• Behavioral Assessment and Technology Support System (BATSS): This project involves partnership between the department and metroplex-area school districts to design and implement extensive data-based behavior intervention programs based on outcomes of functional analyses conducted in the schools. The in-school functional analyses, subsequent data-based classroom interventions, teacher training workshops, and training classroom staff to implement behavioral technology is carried out by departmental graduate students. BATSS has published research based on our school-generated FAs and subsequent training interventions. BATSS work provides research opportunities for the departmental graduate students. Finally, graduate students have conducted workshops at ABA's international conferences and made presentations at the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis conferences. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Janet Ellis (Ellis@scs.unt.edu)

• Developmental Disabilities Consulting: This project is a joint collaboration between the Department of Behavior Analysis and Bethphage Mission South. It includes the design of work activities in a group home system and training programs for adults with developmental disabilities. Faculty and graduate students provide consulting and direct services in the areas of staff management and client training. The training is carried out by graduate students who have completed practica in the vocational workshop sponsored by Bethphage Mission South. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Janet Ellis (Ellis@scs.unt.edu)

• North Texas Autism Project (NTAP): This project involves a two-course sequence, practicum, internship, and thesis opportunities. Students are trained to develop, implement, and supervise behavioral early intervention programs for children with autism. Students participate in classroom, clinical, and research activities under the guidance of Board Certified Behavior Analysts. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Shahla Alai- Rosales (Srosales@scs.unt.edu)

• Repertoire Enhancement and Development with Youth (READY): The project serves juveniles from low-income neighborhoods of Denton, Texas. The goal of READY is to enhance and develop skills of juveniles-at-risk for social maladjusment. The project consists of teaching juveniles how to formulate goals and to achieve those goals. The project also emphasizes skills necessary to expand beneficial social networks. Students meet weekly with the advisor to report on progress and plan the intervention targets and procedures for each client. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (Rosales@scs.unt.edu)

Practica in Basic Research

• Human Operant Lab: This laboratory is focused on studying basic behavioral processes as they relate to stimulus control. The specific populations studied include typically developing children and adults, adults with mental retardation, and children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Examples of interest areas include: stimulus equivalence and the extension of stimulus functions, the development of generalized identity matching in children with developmental disabilities, and the role of basic behavioral processes in generative reading. Students can become involved in a variety of ways ranging from simply assisting with the conduct of the sessions to having full responsibility for the design and execution of experiments. Students are also encouraged to publish their findings and present posters and papers and regional and national meetings. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Manish Vaidya (Vaidya@scs.unt.edu)



• Nonhuman Operant Lab: This laboratory is focused on studying basic behavioral processes related to stimulus control. The specific population studied is the White Carneaux pigeon. Examples of current projects include: an investigation of the effects of schedules of reinforcement on well-maintained stimulus control relations and an investigation of the role of sample observing response requirements on performance in a delayed matching-to-sample task. Students can become involved at a variety of levels ranging from assisting with the conduct of the sessions to having full responsibility for the design and execution of experiments. Students are also encouraged to publish their findings and present posters and papers and regional and national meetings. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Manish Vaidya (Vaidya@scs.unt.edu)



• Basic Processes of Human Behavior Laboratory: The laboratory is dedicated to study basic processes of behavior with adult humans (i.e., college students and university staff). Projects include the study of schedules of reinforcement, behavior acquisition, response fluency, the relationship of physiological responses to changes on schedules of reinforcement and changes in stimulus control, and second-order conditional stimulus control. Current projects involve the study of variability of responding during FI schedules and rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior. Students learn to prepare experimental subjects, set up experimental procedures, and collect and graph data. Students discuss the data with the instructor and will present to the research team during the required weekly meetings. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (Rosales@scs.unt.edu)

• Organization for Reinforcement Contingencies with Animals (ORCA): ORCA’s mission is to apply the principles of reinforcement to behavior relevant to the care, welfare, and training of captive animals. Students have the opportunity to apply the principles of reinforcement with a variety of species. Projects include the training of behavior relevant to the care and welfare of the animals, and research projects investigating variables with respect to the shaping process and other variables related to the behavior of these animals. Current settings include the Frank Buck Zoo and Animal Edutainment. Students assist with the data collection and training. Each student is responsible for designing the teaching procedures, the data collection, and graphic presentation of the results. Students report on progress and plan the intervention targets and procedures for individual projects during the required weekly ORCA meetings. Faculty supervisor: Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (Rosales@scs.unt.edu)