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Faculty Profile Details
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Charles Merbitz
Professional Faculty
Applied Behavior Analysis
M.A. Clinical (ABA) Department Chair
Full Professor
Contact Information
Room Number: 725
Phone: (312) 329-6628
Email: cmerbitz@thechicagoschool.edu |
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Merbitz has 15 years of full-time experience teaching at the university level, 12 years as a full-time researcher on learning in rehabilitation, and two years of full-time experience in service delivery as a certified school psychologist. He also served as director of the Center for Disability Resources at IIT for nine years, where he was responsible for all disability accommodations provided by the university. Dr. Merbitz has a national reputation in the rehabilitation and behavioral communities and is widely cited on issues in functional assessment. His current research involves objective process measures for relating clinical interventions in rehabilitation to outcomes and outcome measures (Merbitz, Morris and Grip 1989; Merbitz, 1996). Dr. Merbitz has published numerous articles, two books, and has served as reviewer for NIDRR (the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research) and the journals Stroke, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Behavior Research Methods Instruments and Computers, Journal of Precision Teaching, and The Behavior Analyst. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers, for whom he helped write SCI treatment standards. Dr. Merbitz recently completed a term as president of the Chicago Association for Behavior Analysis and simultaneously of BASIL, the Behavior Analysis Society of Illinois. He served on an advisory board of the Illinois Assistive Technology Project and the Governor’s Task Force on Human Services Reform in Illinois. Dr. Merbitz received a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1975.
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Education
- B.A. in Liberal Arts, University of Illinois-Chicago
- M.A., University of Florida
- Ph.D., University of Florida
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Classes Taught
- BH405—Observation and Measurement
- BH406—Advanced Research Project I
- BH415—Professional Development Group I
- BH402—ABA Conference I
- BH416—Professional Development Group
- BH455—Research Methods
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Areas of Interest/Expertise
- applied behavior analysis
- autism
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Select Presentations
- Merbitz, C.T., & Merbitz, N.H. (2005, May). Celeration and Component-Composite Relations: Two Elements of Ogden Lindsley's Enduring Legacy for Selectionism. In N. Berens, (Chair) A Celebration of Ogden R. Lindsley: His Contributions to Basic Science, Symposium conducted at the Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL, May, 2005.
- Merbitz, C.T. (2002, May). Exploring Selectionism in Behavior Analysis. In C.T. Merbitz, (Chair) Exploring Selectionism for Behavior Analysis, Symposium conducted at the Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Toronto, Canada, May, 2002.
- Merbitz, C.T. (2001, March). Implications of selectionism for the definition and measurement of behavior change. Address presented to the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the International Society for Behaviorology, Rosemont, IL.
- Van der Ploeg, A., & Merbitz, C. (1998, November). Data-Driven Decision Making in Classrooms: Vision, Issues, and Implementation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Chicago, IL.
- Merbitz, C.T., & Merbitz, B. (2004, November). AimChart. Paper in Symposium
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Select Publications
- Merbitz, C.T., Miller, T.K., Hansen, N.K. (2003). Cueing and Logical Problem Solving in Brain Trauma Rehabilitation: Frequency Patterns in Clinician and Patient Behaviors. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 4, Nos. 1 & 2. (Originally published in Behavioral Interventions (2000), 15; 169-187, selected by editors of EJOBA for reprinting).
- Merbitz, C.T. (1996). Frequency Measures of Behavior for Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology, 8:121-130.
- Merbitz, C., King, R., Cherney, L., Marqui, H., Grip, J., & Markowitz, T. (1996). Computerized behavioral data collection and analysis for improved clinical outcomes in rehabilitation. Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration. XIII (2), 57-63. (Originally published in Behavior Research Methods Instruments and Computers, 1992, 24 (2), 366-372; selected by editors of JPTC for reprinting).
- Merbitz, C.T., Vieitez, D., Merbitz, N.H., & Binder, C. (2004). Precision Teaching: Applications in Education and Beyond. Chapter 5 in Moran, D.J., & Malott, R. (Eds). Evidence-Based Education Methods. San Diego, CA: Academic Press/Elsevier Science. Pp. 63-78.
- Merbitz, C.T., Morris, J., & Grip, J.C. (1989). Ordinal scales and foundations of misinference. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 70, 308-312.
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Q&A
- Q: Please describe your teaching philosophy.
- A: It's my responsibility to arrange the conditions under which a reasonably well-prepared student can excel.
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Community Involvement
- Clinical Practice Committee, AASCIPSW
- Board of Directors, AASCIPSW
- Behavior Analysis Society of Illinois (BASIL)—Former president
- Chicago Association for Behavior Analysis (CABA) - President
- Steering Committee, International Precision Teaching
- Conference—Chair 2004, 2006
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Professional Memberships
- Standard Celeration Society
- Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABA)
- American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers (AASCIPSW)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Behavior Analysis Society of Illinois
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