Fluency Training a Writing Skill: Editing for Concision

Dermer, Marshall; Lopez, Shannon L.; Messling, Paul A.

doi:10.1007/bf03395646

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“…Behavioral fluency researchers have successfully used FBPC procedures for interventions in reading (Hughes, Beverley, & Whitehead, 2007;Kubina, Amato, Schwilk, & Therrien, 2008;Brown, Dunne, & Cooper, 1996), spelling (Kubina, Young, & Kilwein, 2004) mathematics (Binder, Haughton, & Van Eyk, 1990;Brady & Kubina, 2010) and advanced writing (Dermer, Lopez, & Messling, 2009). Using FBPC with different writing skills such as simple sentence construction may also yield similar positive results.…”

Section: Frequency Building To a Performance Criterionmentioning

confidence: 80%

Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

2015

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Elementary-aged students with behavioral concerns and disabilities struggling to construct sentences stand a high likelihood for continued academic difficulty. Several studies have used sentence instruction with picture-word prompts to improve sentence level writing skills, including construction of simple sentences, syntax, capitalization, and punctuation. Research in other academic areas, such as mathematics and reading, have found students benefited from deliberate practice procedures resulting in fluency. The present study combined sentence instruction with a practice procedure and measured its impact on the writing performance of four elementary-aged students with behavioral concerns and disabilities. The study used a single case experimental design. The intervention produced gains in the frequency of simple sentences constructed and other sentence level writing skills.Educators and local and state governing agencies expect students to develop an increasingly complex repertoire of writing skills (Common Core State Standards, 2010). Regrettably, students with behavioral concerns, including students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), tend to show sustained difficulty developing adequate writing skills (Brier,

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Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

2015

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“…The use of workshops, in particular, has extended to multiple disciplines and student populations. For example, nursing students with English as a second language (Salamonson, Koch, Weaver, Everett, & Jackson, 2010), ethnically diverse 12th-grade students preparing essays for college admissions (Early, DeCosta-Smith, & Valdespino, 2010), graduate students in clinical psychology (Drotar, 2000), and psychology majors learning to write concisely (Dermer, Lopez, & Messling, 2009) have all benefited from participation in a workshop. Despite limitations related to self-selection, convenience sampling, and small sample sizes within each condition ( n = 13–20), the present research suggests that workshops targeted at basic editing and APA-style skills would also bolster students’ writing proficiency in disciplines using APA style for formal writing.…”

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Workshops Increase Students’ Proficiency at Identifying General and APA-Style Writing Errors^*

Jorgensen

Marek

2013

Teaching of Psychology

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To determine the effectiveness of 20-to 30-min workshops on recognition of errors in American Psychological Association-style writing, 58 introductory psychology students attended one of the three workshops (on grammar, mechanics, or references) and completed error recognition tests (pretest, initial posttest, and three follow-up tests). As a comparison condition for the workshops, an additional 47 students attended one discussion session about the reasons for style rules. Workshop participants improved from pretest to initial posttest for all topics (whereas comparison groups did not) and retained their proficiency in follow-up tests. Feedback and note taking enhanced improvement. By providing students with supplementary training in basic writing skills, workshops may conserve course time in methodology courses, allowing for greater conceptual emphasis.

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“…First, to our knowledge, this is the only study in which ABA practitioners used a fluency-oriented procedure similar to SAFMEDS to teach state sex laws to juveniles adjudicated for illegal sexual behavior. Second, results of this study provide further evidence that behavior taught using fluencyoriented procedures persists at high levels of accuracy following the termination of the intervention (e.g., Dermer et al, 2009;Hughes et al, 2007;Lambe et al, 2015). Third, results indicate that utilizing a predetermined mastery criterion of 100% accuracy across three consecutive sessions will continue to maintain high levels of accurate responding across long periods of time.…”

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“…Likewise, most studies provide little to no information about the number of observations (i.e., sessions) required at the criterion level to promote high retention rates during follow-up assessments. Although several articles show that behavior taught using fluency-based procedures persists at high levels after the intervention is terminated (e.g., Dermer, Lopez, & Messling, 2009;Hughes et al, 2007;Lambe et al, 2015), no study has directly evaluated the impact of specific fluency aims or mastery criteria on retention or skill maintenance. As such, clinicians and researchers do not have access to empirically supported guidelines to determine a specific aim or mastery criterion for fluency-based procedures that will produce the most positive long-term outcomes (Heinicke, Carr, LeBlanc, & Severtson, 2010).…”

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Fluency and the Maintenance of Skills Related to Sex Laws for Individuals Adjudicated for Illegal Sexual Behavior

Hamrick

Richling

Davis

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Behav Analysis Practice

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Previous research has evaluated the effects of various commonly used mastery criteria on skill maintenance by directly manipulating the accuracy requirement, as well as the sessions across which these accuracy levels must be demonstrated. The current study extends this literature by including a rate dimension within the mastery criterion with a unique population. We implemented a fluency-oriented treatment package to increase intraverbal skills related to state sex laws using a multiple-baseline design across 3 target sets for 2 individuals adjudicated for illegal sexual behavior. Within this intervention package, we included 2 distinct components of a single mastery criterion: (a) accuracy (i.e., 100% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions) and (b) speed. We evaluated how each of these measurable dimensions of behavior maintained across time. Results indicate this mastery criterion produced over 80% accuracy during maintenance probes for 10 weeks across all sets for both students. However, this mastery criterion produced idiosyncratic maintenance of rates across students and sets. These results suggest that each of these dimensions of behavior does not necessarily covary and should be conceptualized as distinct clinical targets by applied behavior clinicians.

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Fluency Training a Writing Skill: Editing for Concision

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

Workshops Increase Students’ Proficiency at Identifying General and APA-Style Writing Errors^*

Fluency and the Maintenance of Skills Related to Sex Laws for Individuals Adjudicated for Illegal Sexual Behavior

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Fluency Training a Writing Skill: Editing for Concision

Cited by 7 publications

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Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

Effects of Sentence Instruction and Frequency Building to a Performance Criterion on Elementary-Aged Students with Behavioral Concerns and EBD

Workshops Increase Students’ Proficiency at Identifying General and APA-Style Writing Errors*

Fluency and the Maintenance of Skills Related to Sex Laws for Individuals Adjudicated for Illegal Sexual Behavior

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