Christine GormontSenior System Manager

BRSS Supervisors

Senior System Manager Christine Gormont

Junior System Manager Austin Mifsud

Undergraduate Supervisors Shant Demirjian

What is BRSS?

A supervisory system in Dr Malott’s Behavior Analysis Training System We oversee all of the continuous quality

improvement completed throughout the systems

We supervise UG Honors Theses and Grad R&D Projects

Within System Roles

2nd year 1st year Have them help you run the system Assign tasks to undergraduates

1st year Undergraduate students Assign tasks to undergraduates (4 per

week) Revise undergraduate theses Check tasks before BRSS supervisor

checks them

BRSS Requirements

Attendance at weekly meetings (3-3:50)

Complete 4 hours of system work Revisions of undergraduate theses Computer Workshop (required first 2

weeks then optional for rest of semester)

BRSS CD

Deadlines

All tasks are due by BRSS on Friday (3pm)

Revisions for undergraduate writing assignments will be due at midnight on Tuesday (CC Austin)

Next weeks tasks must be assigned to undergrad by end of BRSS meeting (proof on TVF)

Things we cannot count as tasks Anything that is not relevant to the

system NO EMAILS!

Proof of Tasks

Meeting Notes Updating of materials Grades/Graphs Data Collection

Grading

Based on Attendance System Tasks (4 hours) Revisions of UG writing assignments Computer Workshop (if applicable) Professionalism

Conflict resolution Email policy Being prepared for meetings

Other Policies… Make-up tasks

After one week points CAN NOT be made up In other words you must turn in your make-up

tasks in the BRSS meeting following your absence The current weeks BRSS tasks The tasks that were not completed PLUS…..two additional tasks

If a class is cancelled…Tasks are still due and should be e-mailed to the BRSS supervisor

Room Assignments will be e-mailed to you

Project Information

You will be required to perform systems tasks your entire 1st and 2nd year

If you find a relevant disconnect in your system you may fix it and write your R&D paper on it.

If you are just maintaining your system, you may choose to do your R&D paper on your OBM or Autism project

This is our new BRSS project swap program You will be supervising an Honors UG during

your 2nd year on 1 of the 3 projects of your choosing

Traditional R&D Project

Supervise a UG your 1st year Fix a relevant disconnect within your

system Examples of relevant disconnects include….. Non-relevant disconnects include

Write your R&D paper with a focus on your system & complete a ppt

You must still complete an Autism Project/Poster

You must still complete an OBM project paper & possibly a ppt.

Non-Traditional R&D Project

Choose to write your R&D paper and do a ppt on the OBM project or Autism project

You will still be required to supervise an UG for one of these projects

If you choose Autism project, you will do a ppt, paper, and poster. You will still write a small paper for both your System fixes and the OBM project-possible ppt for OBM

If you choose the OBM project, you will do ppt and paper. You will still do an Autism poster and small paper for system fixes

Everyone show proof of meeting with undergrads!