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Direct linkDowner, Anne C. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
In this study, teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to spend 4 min each day on a precision teaching programme with selected pupils, whose progress in word recognition was a cause for concern. Words were taken from "The National Literacy Strategy Framework for Schools". The sessions were set up to be "fun" times. All the…
Descriptors: Students, Word Recognition, Teaching Assistants, Precision Teaching
Download full textWeiss, Mary Jane; Fabrizio, Michael; Bamond, Meredith – Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, 2008
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often exhibit well-documented difficulties maintaining skills after they learn them. Acquired skills often disappear from their repertoires. Frequency-building procedures used with other populations have been touted as having special potential relevance for this population, and one of the reported…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Retention (Psychology), Skill Development
Kubina, Richard M., Jr.; Commons, Michael Lamport; Heckard, Barbara – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2009
This study examined the effects of a Direct Instruction (DI) reading program combined with Precision Teaching during a public school's summer program. Students received instruction from "Reading Mastery" programs for a six-week period. Students also practiced specific reading skills including letter-sound identification, sounding out…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Commons, Micheal Lamport; Goodman, Stephen Allen – Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, 2008
This historical account is told as a narrative from the authors' perspectives of Project Giant Step, which might be one of the most successful teaching-of-reading projects in history. There are a few purposes in telling this story. First, it is in times of chaos that real innovation can be made. It is then that people take chances and it is not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Change, Reinforcement, Precision Teaching
Chase, Philip N.; Doughty, Shannon S.; O'Shields, Elizabethann – Behavior Analyst, 2005
This article presents a reply to the response made by Carl Binder that was critical of the authors' review of rate-building procedures. For the most part, the authors were disappointed in Binder's reply because they believe it muddied the focus of their review: an examination of the "experimental" evidence for the procedures used and suggested by…
Descriptors: Precision Teaching, Educational Research, Criticism, Evaluation Methods
Gallagher, Eamonn; Bones, Robert; Lambe, Jackie – Irish Educational Studies, 2006
The Department of Education in the United Kingdom established ambitious targets for achievement in the three core areas of English, maths and science measured by national curriculum testing. Annual results of the assessment for 2005 indicate that the government is some way off achieving these targets, currently 85%, for the academic years…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Underachievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
