Behavior Analysis, Education, and Effective Schooling

John Hummel

May 2000 · New Harbinger Publications

About this ebook

The American government makes a great case for being interested in education and claims to take great pains to 'leave no child behind.' Current education-system enhancement strategies emphasize testing and accountability and focus on rewarding or penalizing teachers whose students make statistical headway at exam time. But little is offered to teachers in the way of new, better skills to make their teaching more effective.

In Behavior Analysis, Education, and Effective Schooling, four leaders in the field of education-related applied behavior analysis, spell out a case for implementing curricular materials and instructional methods that research has shown to be effective in any classroom at any level. The concise survey includes chapters on achieving educational success, educational theory, schools and schooling. It discusses instructional strategies, classroom management, assessing academic performance, teacher training, and educational myths-all from an applied behavior-analytic point of view.

About the author

Samuel M. Deitz, PhD, is professor of education and dean of the School of Education at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX.

Laura D. Frederick, PhD, is associate professor of educational psychology and special education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

John H. Hummel, PhD, is professor in the Department of Psychology, Counseling, and Guidance at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA.