TY - JOUR TI - Effectiveness of Class-wide Positive Behavioral Support Intervention in Teaching Social Skills to Students in a Primary School Activity Club AB - Positive behavioral support (PBS) is one of the positive approaches based on the principlesof the applied behavior analysis in preventing inappropriate behaviors in the school environment. In the present study, systematic social skills training was included as a part of theintervention, and whether this caused any difference in the social skills performance ofstudents in the second grade in which PBS was applied. Moreover, the students in thesecond grade in which routine teaching continued, and the implementation reliability in thePBS intervention of the teachers and practitioner were also investigated. The experimentaldesign with the pre-test, post-test and control group was used in this study. There was anexperimental group and a control group in the study. The findings of the study showed thatclass-wide PBS is effective on the skills of the second-grade students in the experimentalgroup of acquiring the target skills in the category of complying with the rules, group working and starting a relationship, and the skills of maintaining the skills obtained 3 weeksafter the end of the intervention. The social validity findings showed that the opinions of thestudents on the target skill, intervention and their performance were positive. AU - Koç, Muharrem AU - Köksal, Mustafa Serdar AU - Vuran, Sezgin AU - Olçay, Seray DO - 10.9756/INT-JECSE/V12I1.201004 PY - 2020 JO - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION VL - 12 IS - 1 SN - 1308-5581 SP - 185 EP - 201 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/371600 ER -