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RECIPROCAL PEER MANAGEMENT: IMPROVING STAFF INSTRUCTION IN A VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM
Author(s) -
Fleming Richard,
SulzerAzaroff Beth
Publication year - 1992
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.1992.25-611
Subject(s) - psychology , vocational education , reciprocal , medical education , training (meteorology) , peer group , professional development , applied psychology , pedagogy , developmental psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , meteorology
To test the feasibility and utility of involving peers as sources of feedback, 6 subjects, instructors in a vocational program for adults with mental retardation, participated in a staff training and management program. Subjects' teaching interactions were assessed during baseline, in‐service training (on effective teaching), return‐to‐baseline, peer management, and follow‐up phases. Peer management was introduced in multiple baseline fashion across pairs of subjects. Members of each pair were trained to monitor peer teaching, to record and graph data, to provide feedback, and to set goals with the peer. Each pair then performed these procedures on the job for several weeks, during which time 4 of the 6 subjects increased their use of effective teaching methods (over baseline). However, inconsistencies in the magnitude and durability of these increases require that the study be viewed as inconclusive, although it has heuristic value as a promising model for involving co‐workers in staff management programs.