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Behavioral instruction: An evaluative review.

DOI: 10.1037/10048-000

Publisher: American Psychological Association - American Psychological Association

Aug 31, 2004

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The personalized system of instruction.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 7 –26

Traditional education, especially at higher levels, has relied heavily upon the "lecture method" of teaching. Many people involved in the educational system have expressed dissatisfaction with this particular mode of learning, dismissing it as inefficient and failing to take into account the...
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Other behavioral systems of instruction.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 27 –37

The personalized system of instruction (PSI) is only one of several systems of rules for arranging contingencies of reinforcement in the college classroom. Other systems based upon behavioral principles have been devised by behavioral psychologists. These systems incorporate other principles of...
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Management and grading in behavioral instruction courses.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 39 –62

One goal of this chapter is to review the considerations an instructor faces in managing a behavioral course. We also suggest that for the most adequate preparation, the interested reader enroll in a personalized system of instruction (PSI) workshop, but many teachers have successfully...
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Comparing behavioral and conventional instruction.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 63 –93

This chapter compares behavioral and conventional instruction. All papers concerned with student evaluations from the time of Keller (1968) to the present consistently report that students enjoy behavioral instruction more than conventionally taught courses, regardless of course content covered....
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Component analyses of behavioral instruction.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 95 –170

In this chapter, we provide methodological critiques of many of the experimental designs that have been employed. The reader may choose to ignore these considerations and still gain an overview of the state-of-the-art of efficient behavioral instruction. However, the reader who is interested in...
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Present extensions and future directions.

Johnson, Kent R.; Ruskin, Robert S.

Pages: 171 –182

Recently, several educators have adopted behavioral instruction in traditional and nontraditional elementary school classrooms. Several applications of behavioral instruction in elementary schools, and across subjects such as vocabulary and spelling, are mentioned. Other populations benefiting...

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