Dr. Scott P. Ardoin
Assistant Professor

Dr. Ardoin received his Ph.D. in School Psychology from Syracuse University, an APA Accredited Program. For his dissertation, he researched the use of self-evaluation to assess the effects of school-based interventions. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina, Dr. Ardoin was the Director of the Institute to Enhance Equitable Educational Programs, where his primary responsibilities included monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of two externally funded projects. His duties included evaluating procedures aimed to decrease disproportionality in special education, supervising graduate and undergraduate students, and managing research projects in the areas of curriculum based measurement and response to intervention.

From 2001 - 2002, Dr. Ardoin also worked as a consultant. His duties included training practitioners to assess and monitor student progress using curriculum based measurement, make data based decisions, monitor intervention effectiveness, and prevent the unnecessary referral of minority students. Additionally, he trained practitioners to identify students in need of academic and behavioral interventions, monitor these interventions, and provide teacher training in the areas of academic and behavioral interventions.

Dr. Ardoin has editorial experience as a guest reviewer for the Research in Developmental Disabilities (2002), an Ad-hoc reviewer for School Psychology Review (2001-2002), and as a guest reviewer for the Journal of Behavioral Education (2001, 2002).

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PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Ardoin, S. P., Martens, B. K., Wolfe, L. A., Hilt, A., & Rosenthal, B. D. (in press). Conditioning reinforcer preferences in students with moderate mental retardation. Journal of Developemental and Physical Disabilities.

Eckert, T. L., Ardoin, S. P., Daly, E. J., & Martens, B. K. (in press). Improving oral reading fluency: A brief experimental analysis of combining an antecedent intervention with consequences. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Martens, B. K., & Ardoin, S. P. (in press). Training school psychologists in behavior support consultation. Child and Family Behavior Therapy.

Martens, B. K., Ardoin, S. P., Hilt, A., Lannie, A. L., Panahon, C. J., & Wolfe, L. (in press). Sensitivity of children's behavior to probabilistic reward: Effects of a decreasing ratio lottery system on math performance. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Ardoin, S. P. & Martens, B. K. (2000). Testing the ability of children with ADHD to accurately report the effects of medication on their behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 593-610.

Eckert, T. L., Ardoin, S. P., Daisey, D. M., & Scarola, M. D. (2000). Empirically evaluating the effectiveness of reading interventions: The use of brief experimental analysis and single case designs. Psychology in the Schools, 37, 463-473.

Ardoin, S. P., Martens, B. K., & Wolfe, L. A. (1999). Using high probability command sequences with fading to increase student compliance during transitions. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 32, 339-351.

Martens, B. K., Eckert, T. L., Bradley, T. A., & Ardoin, S. P. (1999). Identifying effective treatments from a brief experimental analysis: Using single-case design elements to aid decision-making. School Psychology Quarterly, 14, 163-181.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2002	Assistant Professor, Behavioral Assessment & Intervention with Children and Youth. Teaching 6 graduate students the strategies and tactics of applied behavior analysis, the behavioral principals derived from experimentally operant and respondent research and the application of behavioral technology to clinically relevant and socially significant problems.
2002	Assistant Professor, Research and Methods. Teaching 120 undergraduate students how to evaluate and apply behavioral research methodology.
2001-2002	Adjunct Professor, General Statistics. Teaching approximately 60 undergraduate students per semester in the conceptual development and logic of statistics.

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