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Improving the Reading Skills of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: Preliminary Study from Botswana
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Mensi, Marina; Baiocco, Roberto; Otukile-Mongwaketse, Mpho; Paganotti, Giacomo Maria; Kubina, Richard Michael – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Students with Disabilities
Precision Teaching Helps Children Learn
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Johnson, Evelyn C. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1971
Descriptors: Charts, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Measurement Techniques
Using Precision Teaching to Teach Minimum Competency Test Skills.
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Byrnes, Michael E.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1990
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…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Competency Based Education, Governance, Learning Disabilities
High School Driver Education Using Peer Tutors, Direct Instruction, and Precision Teaching.
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Bell, Kenneth E.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
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.…
Descriptors: Driver Education, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Effects of Proficiency Rates on Later Performance of a Recall and Writing Behavior.
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Ivarie, Judith J. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1986
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)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
The Use of Precision Teaching with Learning Disabled Students.
Mesler, Judith Lee – 1987
Learning-disabled students in an after-school program were provided with remedial instruction using precision teaching. The instructional program sought to increase performance of five students (grades 4-8) in specific academic skills by 50%. Skills included, among others, spelling, capitalization and punctuation, reading, and multiplication. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, Behavioral Objectives, Instructional Effectiveness
The Elementary Learning Disabilities Classroom Curriculum Guide of the Grosse Pointe Public School System.
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Barnard, Diane G.; And Others – 1979
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…
Descriptors: Art, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Communication Skills