SBIR-STTR Award

Through the Social Shape Up System teachers will use a handheld device to manage their classroom by monitoring and track classroom behaviors in pre-K to eighth grade classrooms. The product will include the curriculum consisting of eight research-based strategies for shaping behavior, a web-based, database-driven system to store, manage, and report student behavior, and the mobile/handheld device to facilitate data collection. Phase I work will develop a prototype of the intervention.

This project team developed a prototype of the Social Shape Up System, a handheld device intended to support teachers in managing their classroom and monitoring classroom behaviors. The completed product will include a curriculum consisting of eight research-based strategies for shaping behavior; a web-based, database-driven system to store, manage, and report student behavior; and a mobile/handheld device to facilitate data collection. During Phase I, the team successfully developed and tested a prototype of the intervention in 4 classrooms. Results demonstrated that the prototype functioned as planned and teachers were receptive to using the final product in their classrooms when available.