Discovery through the lens of the standard celeration chart: Informing and facilitating inductive intervention strategies.

Abstract

Key to the success of Precision Teachers is an understanding that accuracy of performance is necessary, but insufficient for skill mastery. Dimensions of behavior occurring in time, such as rate, latency, or duration, must also be included in determinations of competence. By employing the Standard Celeration Chart, which allows assessment of all the above features of responding, Precision Teachers can detect and address barriers to mastery that go beyond issues of accuracy. Included here are examples of successful behavioral interventions whose discovery is attributed to the use of this sensitive measurement tool. The first intervention presented shows the effects of an error defusion intervention on passage reading. The second intervention demonstrates the impact of a discrimination priming on a picture-naming task. In the before mentioned interventions, the Standard Celeration Chart was paramount in the discovery of key performance variables.