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2 years ago Consider Robinson et al (1981; https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1981.14-307), A token system for a class of underachieving hyperactive children. Here's the abstract:
Using a BAB design, a token system requiring cooperative interaction was used to change the reading and vocabulary performance of an 18-member class of third-grade hyperactive boys. Four different colored tokens, which could be exchanged for 15 minutes of play on electrovideo games, were earned by successful completion of two tasks that involved learning to read and to use new vocabulary words in sentences, and two tasks in which the student served as a proctor to a student who had not yet completed those tasks. The mean number of tasks completed during the intervention periods rose to over nine times the number completed during reversal. Additionally, the average completion rate for the school district's standardized weekly reading level examinations rose from four to eight fold during the token conditions. All 18 students responded to the token program by increasing their academic performance.
The BAB design was used on a class of 18 3rd-grade boys. Though the results in the paper were summarized at the level of the total class level (Figure 1, p. 311), 4 of the students' individual results were highlighted in Figure 2 (p. 312). This would make for a nice Poisson analysis at either the level of n = 4 or perhaps with a simulation of the full n = 18 cases.
Please leave suggestions for single-case or small-n studies using a BAB design.