A third grade teacher is having trouble with a student who wants only her attention, and will not interact with the other children. The school psychologist suggests ignoring the child's attempts to get her attention and praising the child's interactions with other children. Before doing this, the teacher takes a week's worth of measures, each day, of how often the child interacts with other children. She then institutes the "ignore and praise" program for a week and measures interactions with others, then withdraws the program in the third week and again measures interactions with others. This is an example of which single-case design?

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This is an example of an A-B-A design, where "A" represents a baseline measurement (before intervention), "B" represents the intervention phase (ignore and praise), and the second "A" represents the withdrawal of the intervention to see if changes in behavior are maintained or if they revert back to baseline levels.

A Third Grade Teacher Is Having Trouble with a Student