Comparing Video Modeling and Computer-Based Instruction to Teach Preference Assessment Implementation

ABSTRACT

Research is needed to identify staff training techniques that optimize training time and do not require the presence of a staff trainer. Asynchronous training procedures, such as video modeling and computer-based instruction, do not require the simultaneous presence of a trainer and trainee, but include different training characteristics that must be evaluated (i.e., active responding during computer-based instruction and non-active responding during video modeling). The purpose of the present study was to compare video modeling and computer-based instruction on trainee implementation of a paired-stimulus preference assessment. Results demonstrated that both training techniques were effective for training staff to implement stimulus preference assessments. Results are discussed and suggestions for future research are provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Computer-based instruction
• preference assessments
• staff training
• video model

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available at: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14126036.v1

Correction Statement

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