Methoden vergleichen

	Pilot ABAB-Design	ABA-Design
Fachgebiet	Versuchsplanung	Versuchsplanung
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1960s (ABAB base); pilot application codified c. 2000s	1968
Urheber	Derived from ABAB reversal design (Sidman, 1960); pilot framing formalized in behavioral intervention feasibility literature (late 20th–early 21st century)	Montrose Wolf, Donald Baer, Todd Risley (applied behavior analysis tradition)
Typ	Single-subject experimental feasibility design	Single-subject experimental design
Wegweisende Quelle	Byiers, B. J., Reichle, J., & Symons, F. J. (2012). Single-subject experimental design for evidence-based practice. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(4), 397–414.	Baer, D. M., Wolf, M. M., & Risley, T. R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1(1), 91–97.
Aliasnamen	pilot reversal design, feasibility ABAB design, pilot withdrawal design, pilot single-subject reversal	reversal design, withdrawal design, ABA withdrawal design
Verwandt	6	4
Zusammenfassung	A Pilot ABAB design is a small-scale feasibility trial of the ABAB reversal design, conducted with one or a few participants to test whether an intervention produces reliable behavior change under alternating baseline and treatment conditions before committing resources to a larger study. It combines the internal-validity logic of the ABAB reversal with the limited scope and preliminary aims of a pilot investigation.	The ABA design is a single-subject experimental design that demonstrates experimental control through three sequential phases: a baseline phase (A1), an intervention phase (B), and a return-to-baseline withdrawal phase (A2). By removing the intervention in the final phase and observing whether behavior reverts toward baseline levels, researchers establish a functional relationship between the treatment and the target behavior for an individual participant.