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Single-Case Designs for Applied Research
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Single-Case Designs for Applied Research



January 2025 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Single-Case Designs for Applied Research by Craig Kennedy helps readers explore single-subject research designs, grounded in real-world examples drawn from classic and contemporary research in education and beyond. This text aims to give readers precise and highly applicable information and concepts in single-case, or single-subject, designs so readers can apply this knowledge to their own research and practice. By focusing on the experimental nature of this design, students learn about the purposes of single-case research so they can adapt the designs, using them as tools in their methodological toolboxes rather than as formulas to be followed. Beginning with an overview of experiments, single-case designs, and strategic issues, the book then moves onto a review of measurement approaches, different tactics for research designs, and ways to understand data and analysis. Boxed features throughout offer readers more explanation and background of key methodological concepts. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter help students reinforce their knowledge. This brief text concisely and thoroughly covers the landscape of single-case designs.
 
Part I: The Applied Importance of Research
 
Chapter 1: Why Conduct Experiments?
 
Chapter 2: Translational Foundations
 
Part II: Strategic Issues
 
Chapter 3: Functional Relations
 
Chapter 4: Direct and Systematic Replication
 
Chapter 5: Experimental Questions
 
Chapter 6: Evidence-based Practices
 
Part III: Measurement
 
Chapter 7: Quantifying Behavior
 
Chapter 8: Recording Systems
 
Chapter 9: Variable Integrity
 
Part IV: Design Tactics
 
Chapter 10: A-B-A-B Designs
 
Chapter 11: Multielement Designs
 
Chapter 12: Multiple Baseline Designs
 
Chapter 13: Repeated Acquisition Designs
 
Chapter 14: Brief Experimental Designs
 
Chapter 15: Combined Designs
 
Part V: Analyzing Data
 
Chapter 16: Visual Analysis
 
Chapter 17: Quantitative Analysis
 
Chapter 18: Social Validity
 
References
 
Index

Kennedy has finally written a new edition! No more scrounging for 2005 copies. Kennedy provides a thorough and accessible introduction to single case research design. The text is an excellent reference or course text. 

Brittany L. Hott
University of Oklahoma

This book not only reviews single case research designs, but it builds the foundational knowledge necessary for students to understand why we conduct research as well as how to conduct single subject research. 

Molly E. Milam
York College of Pennsylvania

This textbook is excellent for a group of students who have been exposed to applied behavior analysis and education research content. The textbook dives deep into fundamental elements of single-case research. Kennedy has a voice that is readable, striking as unique and distinct. There are many bits of information peppered in from historical and multi-disciplinary perspectives. 

Jennifer Ninci
University of Hawaii at Manoa

I really like how the wording and writing of this chapter are relatable to professionals and students. I don’t often see the use of relevant jargon and concepts to real examples students can understand from their work as teachers in the field. 

Caroline DiPipi-Hoy
East Stroudsburg University

A comprehensive text that incorporates recent advances in data analysis for single case research studies and addresses issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

 

Susan R. Copeland
University of New Mexico

This useful textbook offers background information, fundamental ideas, and a comprehension of pertinent problems in applied behavior analysis, more specifically in single subject research designs. It provides an overview of the main categories of single subject research designs while combining explanation and application. The overview of the history is followed by a detailed summary of the findings from relevant research that have been published in scholarly literature as it relates to each design. 

Sudha Ramaswamy
Mercy College

This text provides an accessible approach to teaching single-subject methodology to students while clarifying definitions and reviewing examples from a multi-disciplinary perspective. 

Joanna B. Thompson
McNeese State University

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