SPCE 691: Supervising Human Service Staff in ABA

The research-related part of this assignment:

"You will do a literature review of your antecedent intervention using articles published in the last five years."

APA PsycInfo will be the best place to start.  Because all of these antecedent interventions could be used in the classroom, however, it's a good idea to check ERIC (EBSCOhost), too.

Some of the antecedents will be easy to search on.

For example, finding research about activity schedules just involves typing that phrase into APA PsycInfo, as shown here:

However, with others, you may have to look at your results and think if there are better ways to search for it.

For example, while it's typically a good idea to put quotation marks around antecedents that are well-known phrases, if you don't find much, remove the quotation marks.  Then the database will search for the search terms even if they're not found side-by-side, which is fine in this example regarding "response prompting:"

...which found this article, that also seems on-topic, or at least worth giving a look:

And sometimes you'll just have to find a way to narrow down the results to be closer to your topic.

For example, if your antecedent is physical activity/exercise, it's probably best to add "intervention" in another search box, to limit results down, like this;

For other topics, you will need to be creative.  Need help?  Consider reaching out to Susan Taylor, the library liaison to the Department of Special Education.  Her email is setaylor@bsu.edu.

Since you need to focus on articles written in the last five years, you need to use the "Limit To" option on the left to limit by publication date to the last five years.

Once you've chosen an article based on its record in the database you're searching, bring up the full text by either clicking on the PDF or HTML full text link, or  by clicking on. 

For more information, check out the information at Find the Full Text of an Article and/or Interlibrary Loan.