1. Public Posting and Staff Attendance Gina M. Feliciano, M.Phil., BCBA Shema Kolainu- Hear Our Voices NYSABA October 14, 2004

2. Public posting literature Plethora of research on changing behaviors through some combination of public posting. Some instances are related to the performance of athletes (JABA, 2002) health and safety issues such as speeding and seat belt use( JABA,1980) staff attendance to work or meetings (J of OBM, 1990, Behavior Modification, 1980)

3. Literature Hutchinson, Jarman, Bailey (1980) Goal: increase staff attendance Chose public feedback: effective, cost little, should not be met with undue opposition, better service delivery Changing staff behavior as first step in improving services. Used ABAB design

4. Literature Norstrom, Lorenzi and Hall (1990) Performance posting: “situation in which a group of individual employee data are openly displayed so that all affected employees as well as others have access to it.” Reviewed literature that examined the effect posting has on work related behaviors.

5. Literature Discuss types of posting: with and w/o goal setting, w/,w/o reinforcement. Review of 11 studies used only at public posting: report generally positive results on performance data, but not always meaningful improvements in target data.. Further review suggested that combination of posting, goal setting and reinforcement lead to best results.

6. Current investigation Attempt to replicate findings of (Hutchinson, Jarman,Bailey) Our problem: high staff to student ratio ( 6:1:4) Provision of quality services application of research findings to “real life problem”

7. Procedures DV: % and number teaching staff attending work ( by age level/classroom/schoolwide) IV: daily informational public posting of % and number staff per classroom Baseline: recorded number of staff calling in, classroom/age level Daily Posting: number and percent attendance per classroom

8. Results

11. Discussion/conclusion AB design… need further intervention Public posting as used in this situation did not increase staff attendance. What we learned: policies had to be changed. Sick time/personal time Two calendars No one has called in sick this year