The Use of Performance Criteria for Determining “Mastery” in Discrete-trial Instruction: A Call for Research | Journal Club Series

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This installment in our Journal Club Series will cover the article, “The use of performance criteria for determining “mastery” in discrete-trial instruction: A call for research” authored by Fienup and Carr and published in Behavioral Interventions. CEUs are provided for reading the article, participating in an online discussion, and completing an article content quiz. Want to get a head start? Click here to go to a free copy of the article!

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The phrases mastery or skills mastered are often used when making clinical decisions regarding instructional programming. Although mastery is frequently used in the context of skill acquisition and direct instruction, there is very little research on this topic. This article is a literature review of mastery criteria research and a call for future research.

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The Article

This installment in our Journal Club Series will cover the article, “The use of performance criteria for determining “mastery” in discrete-trial instruction: A call for research” authored by Fienup and Carr

This article was published in Behavioral Interventions.

Click here to go to a free copy of the article!

Learning Objectives

Objectives:

  1. Define and describe mastery criterion (also referred to as performance criterion)
  2. State the purpose of this paper
  3. List some of the performance standards used in behavior analytic research and practice
  4. Describe the experimental evaluations of different performance-criterion levels on outcomes
  5. List some of the recommended research topics in this area
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