2. BRSS Supervisors
Senior System Manager
Christine Gormont
Junior System Manager
Austin Mifsud
Undergraduate Supervisors
Shant Demirjian
3. What is BRSS?
A supervisory system in Dr Malott’s Behavior
Analysis Training System
We oversee all of the continuous quality
improvement completed throughout the systems
We supervise UG Honors Theses and Grad R&D
Projects
4. Within System Roles
2nd
year 1st
year
Have them help you run the system
Assign tasks to undergraduates
1st
year Undergraduate students
Assign tasks to undergraduates (4 per week)
Revise undergraduate theses
Check tasks before BRSS supervisor checks them
5. BRSS Requirements
Attendance at weekly meetings (3-3:50)
Complete 4 hours of system work
Revisions of undergraduate theses
Computer Workshop (required first 2 weeks
then optional for rest of semester)
BRSS CD
6. Deadlines
All tasks are due by BRSS on Friday (3pm)
Revisions for undergraduate writing
assignments will be due at midnight on
Tuesday (CC Austin)
Next weeks tasks must be assigned to
undergrad by end of BRSS meeting (proof on
TVF)
7. Things we cannot count as
tasks
Anything that is not relevant to the system
NO EMAILS!
8. Proof of Tasks
Meeting Notes
Updating of materials
Grades/Graphs
Data Collection
9. Grading
Based on
Attendance
System Tasks (4 hours)
Revisions of UG writing assignments
Computer Workshop (if applicable)
Professionalism
Conflict resolution
Email policy
Being prepared for meetings
10. Other Policies…
Make-up tasks
After one week points CAN NOT be made up
In other words you must turn in your make-up tasks in
the BRSS meeting following your absence
The current weeks BRSS tasks
The tasks that were not completed
PLUS…..two additional tasks
If a class is cancelled…Tasks are still due and
should be e-mailed to the BRSS supervisor
Room Assignments will be e-mailed to you
11. Project Information
You will be required to perform systems tasks
your entire 1st
and 2nd
year
If you find a relevant disconnect in your system
you may fix it and write your R&D paper on it.
If you are just maintaining your system, you
may choose to do your R&D paper on your
OBM or Autism project
This is our new BRSS project swap program
You will be supervising an Honors UG during
your 2nd
year on 1 of the 3 projects of your
choosing
12. Traditional R&D Project
Supervise a UG your 1st
year
Fix a relevant disconnect within your system
Examples of relevant disconnects include…..
Non-relevant disconnects include
Write your R&D paper with a focus on your
system & complete a ppt
You must still complete an Autism
Project/Poster
You must still complete an OBM project
paper & possibly a ppt.
13. Non-Traditional R&D Project
Choose to write your R&D paper and do a ppt
on the OBM project or Autism project
You will still be required to supervise an UG for
one of these projects
If you choose Autism project, you will do a ppt,
paper, and poster. You will still write a small
paper for both your System fixes and the OBM
project-possible ppt for OBM
If you choose the OBM project, you will do ppt
and paper. You will still do an Autism poster
and small paper for system fixes