how to teach fluency

4 Simple Steps to Supercharge Instruction with Behavioral Fluency

May 2, 2018 bsci21 0

4 simple ways behavioral fluency from Chartlytics. It’s oh-so-easy for students to immediately forget what they worked so hard to learn. Students practice, but as football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Practice does not make […]

ABA Practice

When Ethical Guidelines Conflict in ABA Practice

March 28, 2016 4

By Clelia Sigaud, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer Even as a not-yet-certified student of behavior analysis, it is incredibly easy for me to personally connect with virtually all guidelines within the Behavior Analysis Certification Board’s Professional […]

ABA Practice

Traditional vs. Embedded Discrete-Trial Teaching: Which is more effective?

October 4, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Kaneen Geiger and team published a study in Behavior Analysis in Practice evaluating two types of Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT). DTT is a popular teaching method used by […]

Society

How Relational Frame Theory Is Giving “Brain Training” Apps Competition

August 12, 2015 3

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Bryan Roche, PhD, co-author of the seminal book Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition, wrote an article recently for The Conversation, criticizing […]

Society

Defunding Police: What behavioral science can contribute.

June 24, 2020 3

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA President, bSci21Media, LLC The Issue: Defunding Police Departments The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police was a watershed moment in the Black Lives Matter movement and for police […]

Society

Revolutionizing Behavioral Measurement with MIT’s Marko System

May 22, 2019 3

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Good data goes a long way, but sometimes it is hard to collect. This is especially so in the behavioral sciences. We have historically relied on self-report, or […]

Ivory Tower

How Darwin and Skinner got it wrong and what it means for ABA.

February 8, 2015 4

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a sense, Darwin was wrong…and for that matter Skinner was too. Both men regarded biological traits as constants that affected survival and reproduction, or that […]