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- Title
TRANSPORTABILITY OF EQUIVALENCE-BASED PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION: EFFICACY AND EFFICIENCY IN A COLLEGE CLASSROOM.
- Authors
FIENUP, DANIEL M.; CRITCHFIELD, THOMAS S.
- Abstract
College students in a psychology research-methods course learned concepts related to inferential statistics and hypothesis decision making. One group received equivalence-based instruction on conditional discriminations that were expected to promote the emergence of many untaught, academically useful abilities (i.e., stimulus equivalence group). A negative control group received no instruction, and a positive (complete instruction) control group received instruction on all possible relations (those taught to, and emerging untaught in, the stimulus equivalence group). On posttests, the stimulus equivalence group performed as well as the positive control group (and both outperformed the negative control group), but those in the equivalence-based instruction condition achieved this outcome with significantly less training, thereby demonstrating the efficiency of equivalence-based instruction. Social validity measures indicated that participants found the instruction to be beneficial and as enjoyable as traditional teaching methods.
- Subjects
COLLEGE students; CONTROL groups; CONDITIONED response; EQUIVALENCY tests; DECISION making; EFFECTIVE teaching; TEACHING methods
- Publication
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011, Vol 44, Issue 3, p435
- ISSN
0021-8855
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1901/jaba.2011.44-435