Descriptor
Source
Journal of Applied Behavior… | 6 |
Author
Atkins, Marc | 1 |
Fantuzzo, John | 1 |
Foster, Sharon L. | 1 |
Gilbert, Marilyn B. | 1 |
Gilbert, Thomas F. | 1 |
Lindsley, Ogden R. | 1 |
Ritchey, Wendy L. | 1 |
Van Houten, Ronald | 1 |
Winett, Richard A. | 1 |
Publication Type
Guides - Non-Classroom | 6 |
Journal Articles | 6 |
Opinion Papers | 2 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Researchers | 1 |
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating

Van Houten, Ronald – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1979
The article suggests and describes several ways in which social validation procedures can be employed by researchers and educators to help them select when and how much to modify target behaviors of students. (DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Standards, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education

Foster, Sharon L.; Ritchey, Wendy L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1979
To date, the assessment methodology in the area has moved in two directions: sociometric measures (peer nomination and peer rating scales), which have provided the major means of identifying the socially competent child; and direct observation, principally employed in the specification of socially competent behaviors. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Children, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence, Observation

Gilbert, Thomas F.; Gilbert, Marilyn B. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This paper, on the potential contributions of performance science to education, defines performance and performance science, distinguishes between behavior and performance, presents tactics for presenting instruction, presents tactics for designing training, and outlines how to decide which accomplishments are valuable enough to include in a…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design

Fantuzzo, John; Atkins, Marc – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This paper examines aspects of the traditional implementation of behavior analysis that are counterproductive to teacher use and identifies practices that promote greater teacher use, including entering the system and working with school personnel, developing classroomwide applications rather than single-student interventions, and sustaining…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Techniques

Lindsley, Ogden R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This paper defines precision teaching; describes its monitoring methods by displaying a standard celeration chart and explaining charting conventions; points out precision teaching's roots in laboratory free-operant conditioning; discusses its learning tactics and performance principles; and describes its effectiveness in producing learning gains.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness, Measures (Individuals)

Winett, Richard A.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
A socially valid behavior-change intervention is broadly defined to be directed to a problem of verifiable importance, be accepted and used appropriately by target groups, and reduce substantially the probability of the problem's occurrence in target populations. The definition is applied to a family-based program to prevent human immunodeficiency…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification