Vostanis, Athanasios, Padden, Ciara, McTiernan, Aoife, Langdon, Peter E. (2021) Comparing the Minimum Celeration Line and the Beat Your Personal Best Goal-Setting Approaches During the Mathematical Practice of Students Diagnosed with Autism. Journal of Behavioral Education, . ISSN 1053-0819. E-ISSN 1573-3513. (doi:10.1007/s10864-021-09432-7) (KAR id:86815)
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Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10864-021-09432-7 |
Abstract
This study compared two goal-setting approaches found in the Precision Teaching literature, namely the minimum celeration line and the beat your personal best during the mathematical practice of three male students diagnosed with autism, aged 8–9. An adapted alternating treatments design with a control condition was embedded in a concurrent multiple baseline across participants design. Each approach was randomly allocated to either the multiplication/division (×÷) table of 18 or 19, while no approach was allocated to the ×÷14 table that acted as a control. Instruction utilized number families and consisted of (a) untimed practice, (b) frequency-building, (c) performance criteria, (d) graphing, and (e) a token economy. Upon practice completion, an assessment of maintenance, endurance, stability, and application (MESA) was conducted. Participants improved with both conditions and maintained their performance well, while improvements with the control condition were weak. The beat your personal best approach was highlighted as slightly more effective in terms of average performance and more efficient in terms of timings needed to achieve criterion. No differences were identified in terms of learning rate (i.e., celeration) or performance on the MESA. More research is warranted to identify which goal-setting procedure is more appropriate for students in special education.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1007/s10864-021-09432-7 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Precision teaching; Standard celeration chart; Frequency-building; Special education; Number family |
Subjects: |
L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC4717 Autistic children and youth |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Tizard |
Depositing User: | Athanasios Vostanis |
Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2021 18:35 UTC |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2022 12:28 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/86815 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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