In Botswana, Special Needs Education has been implemented for 25 years with some success but there is still a need for evidence-based methods like Frequency Building, behavioural fluency, and Precision Teaching to be used to measure and improve school performance and learning. We explored the impact of these behavioural technologies on reading…

The ability to read greatly influences students' academic careers and their entire lives. Furthermore, those who have successfully progressed through the continuum of reading behaviors will potentially experience fewer problems when they must read to learn than students who have not mastered basic reading skills. However, students with special…

To examine the practice of charting scores in precision teaching for skill acquisition, two separate studies (involving a fourth grade class of 14 reading disabled students) were conducted. (Author/SBH)

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…

Precision teaching techniques were applied in planning and carrying out projects to alter three behaviors of a 7-year-old boy with learning and behavior problems. (KW)

Precision teaching was used to assess a student's difficulties in math and, after initiating a change in teaching procedures, to evaluate the student's performance to determine the effects of the teaching change. (KW)

The rated inventory, a behavior analytic approach, is offered to supplement inadequate norm based and/or grade referenced assessment techniques in the development of precision teaching programs for students in all levels of reading. (MC)

The parent of a 2 1/2-year-old language handicapped boy describes the therapist's and her own prescriptive teaching techniques during a 1-year period. (MC)

A project combined precision teaching techniques and a flashcard approach known as SAFMEDS, with 4 students with learning disabilities or behavior disorders, age 14-18. Project results determined that the techniques provided students with necessary skills to pass the school district's minimum competency test in the area of local, state, and…

Four high school students, including one with mild mental retardation and one with learning disabilities, completed a driver education curriculum that used direct instruction and precision teaching by peer tutors. Peer tutoring was associated with immediate increases in correct responding and a simultaneous and rapid deceleration of errors.…

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 the present case report was to examine the effects of one and two day reads over lessons in Reading Mastery. The participant was a fifth grade male with learning disabilities. Data were collected on his correct and error rate across various lessons. The data were gathered in the participant's resource room classroom. The overall…

The booklet describes a precision teaching program for the remediation of children with learning deficits in grades K-12 which enables the teacher to use an accurate means of describing and measuring performance on a direct and daily basis and provides a behavioral formula for programing and analyzing social and academic behavior, interpreting…

Discussion of practicing academic skills focuses on a program at the Ben Bronz Academy (Connecticut) for learning-disabled students that uses Precision Teaching and fluency practice via computers. Highlights include fluency and academic performance; knowledge of progress, including charts of student progress; and suggestions for further research.…