Fred has FI notes (again)
Isn't "The Fixed Interval" a wonderful resource about what's new in behavior analysis?
Over on “ABA this week” at The Fixed Interval ‘Fred’ has his usual weekly list of items he’s found in (and close to) the literature of applied behavior analysis for the week of 14-20 September 2025. As long-standing Dear Readers know, I’ve posted about or restacked his weekly installments a few times over the years. This post is another reminder of this valuable product that some readers of Special Education Today will find useful.
This post also provided me a chance to crow about the accomplishments of one of. your SET authors, because in his catalog of scholarly publications,“Fred” pointed to a publication for which SET’s Mandy Rispoli serves as editor.1 Here’s a quote from “Fred’s“ newsletter:
Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions * Volume 27 Issue 4 (7 articles, 1 open access)
Most intriguing: Are There Generalization Effects to the Home Context From the School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) Model?
(Open access) In Norway, a random selection of 4th graders, some of whom were at-risk, were followed with parent surveys for 4 years. School-wide PBIS interventions had no apparent effect on the children or the parents. Could PBIS be missing a generalization component?
Yep, Mandy is co-editor of JPBI. I do not know whether she was the editor in charge of this particular article (editorial teams have different ways of distributing responsibilities for management of submissions and publications), but I do know that JPBI publishes lots of content that is highly relevant for many readers of SET.
I also know that what JPBI publishes is actually sometimes the work of readers of SET. For example, here’s a citation for a paper by Virginia Walker (professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte), who’s been reading SET regularly since 2022:
Walker, V. L., Douglas, S. N., Reilly, A. M., Tapp, M. C., & Sobeck, E. E. (2025). Paraeducator training to support students’ behavioral needs: Administrator, teacher, and paraeducator perspectives. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, https://doi.org/10.1177/10983007251335987
Dear Dear Readers, these publications are open source. It shouldn’t cost you more than electrons to snag copies of them. Yes, you can say, “free.”
I find it a wonderful comfort to know that folks like Virginia W. are part of the SET community. And, she’s only one of many fine scholars, administrators, and teachers who contribute to the commonwealth of SET.
Footnote
Please understand that I get no financial benefit for clicks on the links to either Fred’s product or Mandy’s journal.