7 Planning and Evaluating Skill Acquisition Free Online FlashCards

What is prompting?

A teaching strategy that provides extra help to evoke a response; plan how to fade it so the natural cue controls the response.

What is shaping?

Reinforcing successive approximations of a target response, gradually advancing criteria until the complete response is achieved.

What is chaining?

Teaching a sequence of actions by defining its steps and choosing forward chaining, backward chaining, or total-task instruction.

What does a task analysis do—and not do?

A task analysis identifies the steps in a sequence, but does not by itself teach the learner to perform them.

What is discrimination training?

Teaching when a response is appropriate by practicing across relevant cues and alternatives.

What is reinforcement?

An outcome that follows a response and increases the future likelihood of that response.

How should reinforcement change as a skill becomes reliable?

Identify outcomes the learner values; deliver them promptly and contingently at first, then plan for natural outcomes and less frequent programmed reinforcement as the skill becomes reliable.

What should a skill-acquisition goal specify?

An observable response and the conditions in which it matters, with clear definitions of correctness and independence.

How is response accuracy calculated?

Accuracy is correct responses divided by opportunities, reported as a percentage: $\frac{\text{correct responses}}{\text{opportunities}}\times 100\%$.

What does prompt-level data show?

Record whether each response was independent or required a specified prompt.

When should measurement and mastery criteria be defined?

Set the measurement method, observation opportunities, and mastery criterion before instruction begins.

What should be reviewed when progress stalls?

Review whether enough opportunities were provided, procedures were implemented as planned, and progress was measured consistently; then reconsider teaching conditions or barriers.