Basic Research Considerations for Performance Management of Staff

Performance management and maintenance of data recording by educational care providers.

“…Examples include training care providers to conduct discrete trial instruction (Catania, Almeida, Liu-Constant, & DiGennaro Reed, 2009; Gilligan, Luiselli, & Pace, 2007), preference assessment (Lavie & Sturmey, 2002), functional analysis (Chok, Shlesinger, Studer, & Bird, 2012; Moore & Fisher, 2007), and teaching sessions (Dyer & Karp, 2013), as well as to record and report program data in order to document learning outcomes (Flood & Luiselli, 2012; Rehfeldt, Baker, & Grannan, 2014). However, performance management interventions are frequently required to ensure that care providers demonstrate previously trained skills “on the job.” Broadly defined, performance management is a subdiscipline of ABA which “involves the application of behavioral principles to manage and change employee performance” (DiGennaro Reed, Henley, Hirst, Doucette, & Jenkins, 2015, p. 437).…”