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CONSTRUCTED‐RESPONSE MATCHING TO SAMPLE AND SPELLING INSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
Dube William V.,
McDonald Stephen J.,
McIlvane William J.,
Mackay Harry A.
Publication year - 1991
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.1991.24-305
Subject(s) - spelling , multiple baseline design , matching (statistics) , psychology , microcomputer , sample (material) , natural language processing , stimulus control , computer science , mathematics education , artificial intelligence , linguistics , statistics , telecommunications , philosophy , chip , mathematics , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , psychiatry , nicotine , intervention (counseling)
The development of interactive programmed instruction using a microcomputer as a teaching machine is described. The program applied a constructed‐response matching‐to‐sample procedure to computer‐assisted spelling instruction and review. On each trial, subjects were presented with a sample stimulus and a choice pool consisting of 10 individual letters. In initial training, sample stimuli were arrays of letters, and subjects were taught to construct identical arrays by touching the matching letters in the choice pool. After generalized constructed‐response identity matching was established, pictures (line drawings) of common objects were presented as samples. At first, correct spelling was prompted by also presenting the printed name to be “copied” via identity matching; then the prompts were faded out. The program was implemented with 2 mentally retarded individuals. Assessment trials determined appropriate words for training. Correct spelling was established via the prompt‐fading procedure; training trials were interspersed among baseline trials that reviewed and maintained spelling of previously learned words. As new words were learned, they were added to a cumulative baseline to generate an individualized review and practice battery for each subject.