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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 3 Study designs found in each clearinghouse review

From: Evaluation parameters for evidence-based practices for people with autism spectrum disorder: a narrative review of group and single-subject design studies

Types of study design

NAC (2009, 2015)

NPDC (2010, 2014)

NCAEP (2020)

Group designs

a

  

 Randomized controlled trial (RCT)

 

x

x

 Sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART)

  

x

 Quasi-experimental design (QED)

 

x

x

 Regression discontinuity designs (RDD)

 

x

x

Single-subject designs

   

 Withdrawal of treatment (ABAB)

x

x

x

 Concurrent multiple baseline

x

x

x

 Multiple probe

x

x

x

 Alternating treatments

x

x

x

 Changing criterion design

x

x

x

  1. aIn NAC’s 2009 and 2015 reports, the types of group designs that composed the revised sample were not specified