Date of Award
8-2015
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. R. Wayne Fuqua
Second Advisor
Dr. Ron Van Houten
Third Advisor
Dr. Alan Poling
Keywords
Excel 2013tm, Graphing-tutorial, Single-subject-design, student-training, task-analysis
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The development of graphing skills for the behavior analyst is an ongoing process. Specialized graphing software is often expensive, not widely disseminated, and may require specific training. Dixon, et al. (2009) provided an updated task analysis (Carr & Burkholder, 1998) in the widely used platform Excel 2007. Vanselow and Bourret (2012) provided online tutorials outlining some alternate methods also using Office 2007. This article serves as an update to those task analyses with alternative and under-utilized methods in Excel 2013. To examine the utility of our recommendations twelve psychology graduate students were presented with the task analyses and the experimenters evaluated usability and utility based on their performance and feedback. The task analyses were rated favorably.
Recommended Citation
Deochand, Neil, "Phase Change Lines, Scale Breaks and Trend Lines Using Excel 2013TM" (2015). Masters Theses. 622.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/622
Included in
Cognition and Perception Commons, Cognitive Psychology Commons, Experimental Analysis of Behavior Commons