Eight students with Down's syndrome, aged 11 through 13, were taught to add by counting-on in a 5-day teaching program. Teaching included instruction in component skills and use of precision teaching techniques. All students continued to use the technique six months later and generalized the technique to other materials. (Author/DB)

This article describes the eight-step precision teaching program and reports on this method's use with four British elementary students with reading difficulties. In comparison to two control groups, children receiving precision teaching made substantially greater gains in reading comprehension and slightly greater gains in reading accuracy. (DB)

Provides case studies and related data to support the use of precision teaching techniques (charting changes in performance/learning) in reading instruction. (RL)

A program adapting precision teaching in an urban elementary school is described. This program, initiated by the Teacher Corps, was used as an inservice project operating in the classroom. Four major procedural steps are described: (1) the teacher must describe an educational objective in exact terms; (2) pupil performance must be recorded daily…

This publication deals with the classroom use of rate sheets as aids in teaching reading decoding skills systematically and sequentially. The introduction explains the use of rate sheets in presenting a systematic arrangement of instructional cues to which children respond for a standard period of time, and it discusses the original development of…

Two interventions, both using repeated readings combined with a simple error correction technique and precision teaching, were used with two at-risk elementary students to improve their oral reading skills. Both interventions (language experience approach stories and passages from a basal reading program) worked equally well. (JDD)

Fourth-grade students (N=120 including eight learning disabled students) were taught via the Precision Teaching Method to meet a mastery criterion of either 70 or 35 correct responses per minute. Results indicated that average or below average students needed the higher proficiency rate to ensure skill retention. (DB)

The purpose of this document is to explore some strategies which may be helpful to new projects during their planning and implementation years. Each chapter of the document is composed of a separate project description. Topics discussed in this paper include: 1) the adaptation of educational research to improve elementary reading comprehension; 2)…

Precision teaching is a way of maintaining accountability in a classroom, through letting children work on individually prescribed objectives without losing track of each child's needs and rate of progress. This goal is accomplished through taking a timed test of each student's performance daily, and recording the scores on logarithmic charts. The…

Examines the background to behavioral applications to children's learning. Provides a brief description of three approaches: task analysis, direct instruction, and precision teaching. Looks at assumptions of these approaches, their similarities, and their interrelationship during continuous assessment. Discusses the role of a behavioral approach…

The elementary learning disabilities classroom curriculum guide is designed to provide individualization through precision teaching and to provide a scope and sequence which permits some skills to be continued throughout the elementary program. A list of performance objectives is provided in each of the following skill areas: cognitive/perceptual…

After reviewing the conceptual bases and practical application of precision teaching, this analysis traces its evolution as the Sacajawea Plan, reports on its implementation in central Oregon school districts, and details the costs and procedures of adoption. Developed by Ogden Lindsley from B. F. Skinner's work in operant conditioning and…