The Effects Of Self-management Strategy On Improving The On-task Behavior Of Children With Autism

The research aimed to explore how self-management strategy helped to improve the on-task behavior of a student with autism in a regular classroom.A Grade 1 student with autism in a regular elementary school in Chongqing who exhibited deficits in attending to task in usual learning and had lower self-management was the subject in this study.The independent variable was the self-management strategy which included four process stages:goal setting,self-monitoring,self-evaluation and self-enforcement.The dependent variable was the on-task behavior during class which meant that the student would have the following behaviors during his learning in the classroom:1.not playing with objects 2.sitting quietly in chair 3.setting eyes on the teacher/blackboard/learning materials or PPT 3.responding to teacher, s instructions.This research used the changing criterion design of the single subject research in which the test 30 minutes observation and documentation once a day for a period 9weeks in the whole process that included three stages known as baseline,intervention and maintenance Before getting in to the intervention,self-management strategy was taught to the student 2 times for 20 minutes and in the intervention,self-management strategy was taught to the student ever day for 15 minutes.After,through the data gathered during the experimental stage,a visual analysis,a percentage calculation of inter-observer agreement and the social validity assessment were proceeded.The major results of this research were as below:1.The student could learn the self-management strategy exactly2.Self-management strategy had direct effect in improving the student,s on-task behavior3.Self-management strategy did not only have maintenance effect,but also social validity.Suggestions in after the upgrade the children with autism class attention behavior should be considered in the selection of self-management strategies, and according to the specific circumstances of the child do enhance investigation and determined to enhance the exchange standard.