Análise comparativa de avaliações de marcadores com o instrumento VB-MAPP por analistas do comportamento

Abstract

The VB-MAPP is one of the most used instruments to assess the behavioral skills of children with developmental delay and also a curriculum guide for treatment. However, there are few studies that assess the performance of behavior analysts using the protocol. In view of this, the present study aimed to analyze the agreement of professional evaluations in the behavioral skills frameworks of the VB-MAPP and to make a relation to the basic knowledge in Behavior Analysis (CA) and Verbal Behavior (CV) and performance of these subjects. Seven professionals participated in this research, specialists in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The Professionals watched three (3) videos, each one of a child, to evaluate the observed free operants. The appointments were made in the VB-MAPP protocol and, after the appointments, the professionals performed a knowledge test in AC and CV. The data were submitted to the Krippendorff (Kalpha) Alpha statistical method for analysis of agreement among professionals. The association of difference values between Kalpha criterion and each professional's values with the evaluation scores were verified with Kendall's non-parametric tau-b correlation test to analyze the correlation between knowledge and performance. The results obtained in verifying the relationship between knowledge and performance in the evaluations, demonstrated a correlation in the general repertoire, but in the discriminated milestones only three (3) showed a correlation.