Effects of conducting peer behavioral observations on the observer's correct use of discrete trial teaching procedures

Effect of conducting behavioral observations and ratings on staff implementation of a paired‐stimulus preference assessment

“…The participants' safe performance of these tasks subsequently improved as a result of scoring others' behavior. These results have been replicated for various safety skills, as well as implementation of functional analysis and discrete trial teaching procedures (Alvero, Rost, & Austin, ; Field, Frieder, McGee, Peterson, & Duinkerken, ; Sasson, Austin, & Alvero, ; Thomas, ), but not for SPA implementation. We therefore extended this line of research by having our trainees rate a video model's implementation of a paired‐SPA prior to implementing this SPA.…”

The influence of observations and ratings on implementation of discrete trial instruction

“…Alvero and Austin referred to this phenomenon as the observer effect. Additional studies have replicated and extended research on the observer effect by having participants observe, evaluate, and engage in a parts-assembly task (Alvero et al, 2008), functional analysis procedures (Field et al, 2015), and DTI (Thomas, 2013). For example, Thomas (2013) had participants observe and score peers implementing DTI in a classroom setting before implementing DTI themselves.…”

“…Although the results of these studies show that conducting behavioral observations and ratings was effective for improving one's own performance, several issues warrant consideration. First, although Thomas (2013) successfully taught participants to implement DTI, generalization data were not collected to evaluate whether the participants' performance improved across multiple skills commonly taught via DTI (e.g., tacting, matching). Thus, additional research is needed to evaluate the generalization of skills following behavioral observations and ratings of performance for DTI.…”

“…The purpose of the current study was to systematically replicate Thomas (2013) and Marano, Vladescu, Reeve, and DiGennaro Reed (2020) to evaluate the generality of the observation and rating procedure for teaching DTI. Specifically, participants viewed videos of the implementation of each DTI step, rated the accuracy of the implementation depicted in the videos, and then implemented the procedure with a confederate consumer.…”

Discrete Trial Training

“…The therapists were taught to place each card in the corresponding section on the laminated board based on the learner's response to the S D . Thomas ( 2013 ) found that DTT implementation of paraprofessionals improved after they were taught to observe and score the accuracy of their peers' teaching sessions.…”