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On the Decline of n = 1 Research in Behaviour Change: A Comment and Some Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2012

Christopher F. Sharpley
Christopher F. Sharpley*
Affiliation:
Life, Work, Play, Coolangatta, Queensland. csharpley@lifeworkplay.com
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor C.F. Sharpley, PO Box 378, Coolangatta QLD 4225, Australia.
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Abstract

The n = 1 research design and the ethos underpinning it have importantly contributed to applied behaviour analysis since its inception. Many papers in Behaviour Change (BC) using this methodology have been of value to practitioners in the field, as well as to researchers and teachers. However, the rate of publication of n = 1 papers in BC has decreased during the last decade. The present article first documents that decline in rate of publication, then raises some issues for discussion about why this has occurred. Comments from the wider readership are invited in an effort to resurrect this valuable and informative clinical research tradition.

Type
Case Reports and Shorter Communications
Information
Behaviour Change , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2005 , pp. 249 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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