1. WELCOME TO BRSS
Christine Gormont
Senior System Manager

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
AnalysisTraining System
 We oversee all of the continuous quality
improvement completed throughout the systems
 We supervise UG HonorsTheses 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
 ComputerWorkshop (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
 SystemTasks (4 hours)
 Revisions of UG writing assignments
 ComputerWorkshop (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

14. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
Everyone show proof of meeting with undergrads!