Table 5 Effect Sizes by Research Design, Level of Support, and Dependent Variable (N= 23, k =111)

Category number of studies (N) k2) Mean PND Mean IRD Mean Tau-U
Research design Multiple-baseline design 18 85 .964 .973 .982
Reversal design 3 13 .810 .850 .880
Baseline–intervention–maintenance design 3 13 .945 .945 .918
Level of support Individual-level support 17 78 .933 .951 .963
Class-wide + individual-level support 4 24 .965 .962 .954
Class-wide support 1 3 .938 .938 .964
Grade-level support 1 6 1.000 1.000 1.000
Dependent variable Problem behavior 21 64 .947 .962 .974
Desirable behavior 13 41 .936 .944 .943
Social interaction 2 6 .962 .962 .978
N : number of studies. (In the study by Song et al. (2018), both a multiple-baseline-across-settings design and an A-B design were reported and therefore coded separately. Thus, the sum of the number of studies by research design may not equal the total number of studies)
k : number of AB comparison units
(a single study could include multiple disability types, the sum of the number of studies by disability type may not equal the total number of studies)