Assessing the effects of behavioral skills training on adult teaching responses, learner acquisition, and learner disruptive behavior across responses and instructional skill sets
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Title
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Assessing the effects of behavioral skills training on adult teaching responses, learner acquisition, and learner disruptive behavior across responses and instructional skill sets
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:d57fcd410681:11060
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identifier
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10944
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Creator
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Fetherston, Anne,
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Contributor
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Peter Sturmey
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Date
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2010
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Developmental psychology | Behavioral psychology | autism | Behavioral Skills Training | staff training
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Abstract
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Behavioral Skills Training (BST) is a teaching package consisting of instructions, feedback, modeling, and rehearsal that has been effective for training staff to provide intervention to people with developmental disabilities. The purpose of the current study was to assess: (a) whether prior studies demonstrating the effectiveness of BST could be systematically replicated in a variety of teaching procedures, (b) whether the instructional skills that staff acquired during training on one response generalized to a variety of instructional programs, (c) whether positive changes in staff performance corresponded to positive behavior change in learners and (d) whether positive changes in learner behavior generalized to novel programs. Results systematically replicated and extended prior studies by demonstrating that BST resulted in positive behavior change across staff, learners, instructional programs, and various types of teaching skills. Further, for all types of instructional procedures staff displayed generalization of teaching skills to novel responses and learners displayed increases in correct responding, indicating that BST is an effective and efficient intervention procedure.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
