In discussing the effectiveness of precision teaching, three questions are addressed: (1) What is different or unique about it? (2) What kind of data are necessary to prove that precision teaching affects learning? and (3) What evidence supports its use? (Author/CL)

The article describes two ways that universities are involved in precision teaching: (1) the use of precision teaching to teach precision teaching to students of special education and (2) faculty work with public school personnel to help teachers maintain charting skills by meeting monthly to discuss issues and procedures. (Author/CL)

A continuous and curriculum-based assessment method, Precision Learning Assessment (PLA), which integrates precision teaching and norm-referenced techniques, was applied to a math computation curriculum for 214 third graders. The resulting districtwide learning curves defining average annual progress through the computation curriculum provided…

The author reviews systems providing objective guidelines to facilitate ongoing, daily instructional decisions, focusing on those which utilize the sensitive datum and uniform charting procedures of precision teaching. Potential users are warned that the special education teacher must remain a critical and vigilant analyst of the learning process.…

Pupil achievement data (N=252 mildly disabled elementary students) are analyzed by type of class, classification of student, subject, grade level, number of years teachers were in the project, and amount of charting done by teachers. In addition, data are presented on teacher judgment with pupil achievement, and supervisor judgment and teacher…