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COMMUNITY APPLICATIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY: TRAINING LOW‐INCOME PROCTORS 1
Author(s) -
Mathews R. Mark,
Fawcett Stephen B.
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.1977.10-747
Subject(s) - deliverable , psychology , low income , training (meteorology) , medical education , learning community , training manual , mathematics education , medicine , engineering , sociology , socioeconomics , economics , physics , systems engineering , meteorology , economic growth
A community education system might be most effectively implemented in low‐income communities if it were deliverable by neighborhood residents. A proctor training manual, designed to teach neighborhood residents how to administer standardized learning units to their peers, was analyzed in two experiments. The results of Experiment I showed that the percentage of occurrence of proctor behaviors increased after completion of the manual. Supplementary data suggest that specified proctor behaviors generalize to actual instructional situations. The results of Experiment II showed that the percentage of occurrence of trainee behaviors was higher when instructional packages were administered by trained proctors than when administered by untrained proctors. This study demonstrates an effective procedure for training low‐income community residents to serve as proctors for a community education system.