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COMMUNITY APPLICATIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY: TRAINING WRITERS OF INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGES 1
Author(s) -
Fawcett Stephen B.,
Fletcher R. Kay
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-739
Subject(s) - psychology , training (meteorology) , computer assisted instruction , medical education , instructional design , mathematics education , applied psychology , multimedia , computer science , medicine , physics , meteorology
A community education program, to develop a variety of performance competencies in large numbers of neighborhood residents, requires a technology for preparing learning units administerable by community members themselves. The effects of a writing manual, designed to teach nonprofessionals to prepare such instructional packages, were analyzed in two experiments. Experiment I employed a multiple‐baseline design across three university student trainees. The results showed that appropriate program writing increased by 75% after completion of the manual. The results of Experiment II, with two low‐income neighborhood residents serving as trainees, showed that packages produced by trained writers resulted in a greater increase in skill activities than sets of training stimuli produced by untrained writers.