Precision Teaching and Standard Change Charting

lSPl 2000 - Education Reform - Ogden Lindsley

When it was . Precision Teaching was developed from 1965 through 1972 at the Universitydeveloped of Kansas to apply Skinner's free operant self-frequency and standard slope

charting to public special and regular education.

What PT is

Why it wasdeveloped

How widespread

Why PTdies out

Why PTcomes back

Some PTdiscoveries

Learners make weekiy learning improvement decisions from self-chartedcorrect and error performance frequencies on standard change charts.

. Skinner said his major contributions were rate of response and the cumulativerecorder. His pigeons recorded their own learning on standard rate charts.

. However the first appliers of operant methods to education recorded percentcorrect on a wide range of non standard fill the frame charts.

. This was regrettable because correct and error frequencies are independentand 40 times more sensitive to curriculum changes than percent correct.

. Also standard charts can be shared and analyzed in 2 minutes per chart -10 times faster than non standard charts.

. Great Falls, MT, Precision Teaching project trained thousands of publicschool teachers in hundreds of workshops over 24 years.

. Two of 20 Federal dissemination programs were PT based in 1979.

. Abigail Calkin's recent survey found over 1,081,000 standard learning chartshave been used to improve performance.

. It loses its grant as federal dollars rotate in state and federal politics.Staff never learned how to support it with local dollars. Lose face if they do.

. Too much work for teachers who did not teach their children to chart.

. Most teachers fear math and charts. Why math teachers are so hard to find.

. Teachers buy into fads that make teaching easier for teachers.

. Schools of education preach theory with no measured classroom effects.

. The public gets fed up with curricula fads that did not improve test scores.

. PT always produces large gains in tested student performance.

. All personal and group performances fit on a 20 period 6 cycle standard chart.

. All performances multiply or divide.

. Positive and negative performances and feelings are independent.

. Repeated daily one minute timings build fluency.

. Five and ten second sprints can start performers unable to work one minute.

. Fluent performance (200 per min) builds retention, endurance, application.

. Fluent performance is fun.

(2 grade levels in 16 hours of instruction with adult learners at Malcolm X).

Where PT lives . In private schools, charter schools, learning centers, and tough minded schoolin between disiricts, free from professional bias and grant interference

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Precision Teaching and Standard Charting Resources

Articles and Lindsley, O. R. (1992). Precision Teaching: discoveries and effects. Journal of Appliedchapters BehaviorAnal),sis,b,5l-57.

Lindsley, O. R. (1997). Performance is easy to monitor and hard to measure. In R.Kaufman, S. Thiagarajan. & P. MacGillis (Eds.). The guidebook for performanceimprovement: Working with individuals and organizations. (pp.5l9-559). San Franciso,

CA: Pfeiffer, Jossey-Bass.

Lindsley, O. R. (1997). Precise instructional design.: Guidelines from Precision Teaching.In C. R. Dills & A J. Romiszowski (Eds), Instructional development paradigms (pp. 537-554). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Pubiications.

Lindsley, O. R. (1999). From training evaluation to performance tracking, Chapter I l. InH. Stolovitch & E. Keeps (Eds.). The handbook of human performance technolo-qy.

edition 2. (pp.2LO-236). San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer, Jossey-Bass.

Recent Beck, R., Conrad, D., & Anderson, P. (1995). Basic Skillbuilders Handbook. Longmont,books CO: Sopris West.

Maloney, M. (1998). Teach your children well: A solution to some of North America'sEducational Problems. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Materials Behavior Research CompanySopris West

www.behaviorresearchco.comwww.sopriswest.com

School Ben Bronz Academy, West Hartford, CT www.tli.comwebsites Judge Rotenberg Center, Canton , MA wwwjudgerc.org

Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA www.morningsideinfo.comTobinworld, Glendale, CA www.tobinworld.orgQuinte Learning Center, Ontario www.qlced.com

Business Binder-Riha, Inc.(Fluency) Celeration Technologies, Inc

www.binder-riha.comhttp ://members. home.ne/j oeparsons/

Listserv Standard Celeration listserv. 145 members. I to 5 messages a day.Excellent quick answers to beginner's questions. Join at www.celeration.org

Society and Smndard Celeration Society and Journal of Precision Teaching at www.celeration.orgJournal Standard Chart Topics Resource at http://members.aol.com/standardcharter/index.html

Up coming Standard Celeration Chart Reading and Charting. Ogden Lindsley, John Cooper, Barryworkshop Morgenstern, Michael Fabrizio, Alison Moors, Shala Ali-Rosales, Richard Kubina, and

Henry Pennypacker.26 May 2000, 9:00am to 5:00pm, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC. $165.Workshop #10. Find description and enrollment form at www.wmich.edu/abalconventior/

Reach Og at olindsley@aol.com366 N 1600 Rd, Lawrence, KS 66049-9199 Voice 785-881-6869 Fax785-881-6779

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