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)

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.…

Origins of precision teaching, how it differs from behavior modification, and implications for regular and special education are described. It is emphasized that it is not an approach to classroom teaching, but a system of monitoring daily performance - a measurement technique to increase efficiency and effectiveness of present teaching methods.…

The manual provides information for precision measurement (counting of movements per minute of a chosen activity) of achievement in special education students. Initial sections give guidelines for the teacher, parent, and student to follow for various methods of charting behavior. It is explained that precision measurement is a way to measure the…

The purpose of this ten-month project was to determine the value of providing prevocational training to sixteen autistic and/or neurologically impaired children at Benhaven School, New Haven, Connecticut, a school for moderate and severely handicapped preadolescent and adolescent students. Objectives were to evaluate each child's potential for…

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…

A first grader was taught to tutor four classmates in naming geometric figures. These four then tutored the rest of the class. Precision teaching methods were used to measure daily performance of students. One tutor was successfully taught to collect frequency data on his tutorees and chart their performance. (KW)

Describes the procedures used in Precision Teaching with less severely handicapped students, including staff training, teacher duties, student screening, and treatment. These procedures are based on direct and daily measurements which are recorded on a standard behavior chart to simplify communication about and illustrate the rate of learning.…

A nonaversive technique was used to teach a severely handicapped woman to decrease her refusals. The technique employed precision teaching via precise daily measurement strategies, environmental analysis, and a focus on building appropriate behavior. (JDD)

Precision teaching (PT) is an approach to the science of human behavior that focuses on precise monitoring of carefully defined behaviors in an attempt to construct an environmental analysis of that behavior and its controlling variables. A variety of subjects have been used with PT, ranging in academic objectives from beginning reading to college…

The "Care-Full" teaching process described in this report is an assessment-oriented procedure which monitors the student's specific rate of growth toward defined learning objectives. First, the report briefly delineates eight steps in the process, indicating that teachers and counselors: (1) become aware of the need for assessment; (2) transform…

The selected bibliography on diagnostic teaching contains approximately 48 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of availability of…

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)