IS THE BEHAVIOR OF ACADEMIC CHANGE AGENTS CONTROLLED METAPHYSICALLY -AN ANALYSIS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THOSE WHO CHANGE BEHAVIOR

The issue of treatment integrity in the area of academic interventions is one of promoting generalization of change agent behavior across ti me, settings, and target children. Contextual variables are examined t hat affect the likelihood of treatment integrity by considering the co ntingencies operating for change agents and a matrix of social interac tion patterns between target children, direct change agents, and indir ect change agents. It is proposed that strategies described in the gen eralization literature are equally applicable to change agents to incr ease fidelity of implementation. Finally, factors related to change ag ents that need to be considered in academic intervention are summarize d and recommendations for future research in this area are made.