Operant Behavior and Snowflakes
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Guest blog by Andy Lattal, Ph.D Sitting here at my desk on a cold, snowy morning watching the snowflakes gently descend to blanket the landscape outside my window (such descriptions reveal why I am a behavior analyst and not a poet), reminds me of the operant (another reminder, too, of why I am not a poet).
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Precision Teaching for Classroom Success
Friday, 05 April 2019
Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA Humans are constantly in search of the newest, brightest solution for problems in everyday life. We download countless apps for tracking calories, learning languages, working out, budgeting—you name it. In education, we do the same. But the newest, brightest thing in teaching and learning might not be the solution. Education
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Telling Our Story: BCBAs in Schools
Friday, 05 April 2019
BCBAs have an increasingly visible presence in public schools. While most work with special education populations, many still make their way into general education classrooms (inclusion, conducting FBAs). With improved funding for and awareness of behavior analytic services, each classroom becomes an avenue for impact. School-based BCBAs are not a new idea, but dissemination capacity
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Telling Our Story: Importance of Dissemination
Friday, 22 March 2019
GUEST STUDENT BLOG BY CLEDIA CABERLON Effective tools and interventions are the hallmark of behavior analysis. Across disciplines and populations, applied behavior analysis improves people’s lives. While the science of human behavior can be implemented wherever behavior is found, according to Dr. Dean Fixsen, of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute “Students do not
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Staff Training That Clicks
Friday, 01 March 2019
Guest blog by Rachel Thomas, RBT Respondent Conditioning Auditory stimuli used for changing behavior dates back to the 1890s when physiologist Ivan Pavlov studied the effects of associating a bell tone with meat powder to elicit salivating in dogs. Though dogs are born with the reflex of drooling in the presence of stimuli that will satisfy their hunger,
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Giving Good Feedback: Is It That Simple?
Friday, 15 February 2019
Guest Blog by Jackie Noto Employee feedback is critical for personal and business success. Research on feedback shows that intentional and consistent feedback greatly improves staff expertise, productivity, and outcomes. But, knowing that feedback is important and delivering it effectively are two different things. How Should Feedback Look? And more importantly, what should it do?
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Learning Through Play: A New CE Offering
Friday, 01 February 2019
Pretend and imaginative play activities, like playing house and traveling in cardboard box spaceships, enrich cognitive and social development. Decades of research point to its impact and importance. Even researchers who arrive at contradictory conclusions about the benefits of play acknowledge it as a catalyst for expanding expressive language and social skills. Though the
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Making the Most of Your Conference (with our free planner)
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Learning goals help you select the right talks to attend and frame your thinking so you’re actively engaged. Networking goals set your intentions for the interactions you’ll have with other professionals while at the conference.
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The Tipping Scale: Customer Gratuity and Quality of Service
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Restaurant servers work in the face of two motivating forces: customer tipping and restaurant management practices, leaving the question, how can quality service be maintained when the two are at odds? Read on to learn more from FIT students Curtis Phillabaum and Ruth Whipple.
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Time for a Timeout from Timeouts?
Tuesday, 08 January 2019
It isn’t so much time for a timeout from timeouts as it is for a timeout from overgeneralization and categorical rejection of proven behavior-management methods.
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The Feedback Sandwich: Should you be using it?
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Guest Blog by Noell Jankowski Many leaders report using the “sandwich” method to deliver feedback, and some employees even claim to enjoy receiving it, but what effect does this method have on employee performance? This post will highlight some of the most recent evidence on methods of feedback, and why you may want to reconsider delivering
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Expand Your Knowledge and Continuing Education Repertoire!
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Shauna V. Costello, MA, BCBA & Allison King, Ph.D., BCBA-D Professionals from many industries are on a rotating cycle of obtaining Continuing Education Units (CEUs). As behavior analysts, we currently must renew our certification every two years by gaining a number of BACB CEUs—either 20 for BCaBAs or 32 for BCBAs. It is
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