Welcome! I’m Jared.
I’m a behavior scientist, a BCBA, and PhD student in special education at Penn State University who focuses on the science of learning and identifying ways measurement can improve student outcomes through precision teaching.
What is Precision Teaching?
“Precision teaching is an evidence-based measurement and decision-making system that enables educators to evaluate instruction using the standard celeration chart. Precision teaching guides decision making with any academic program or educational curriculum. The goals of precision teaching are to strengthen fluent responding by reinforcing high frequency responding. Instructors and students display their time series data on the standard celeration chart to show the data and tell a story of what is happening. The motto of precision teaching is that one should never give up on the learner; the data should be assessed and modifications to teaching occur as nessary. The standard celeration charted data guides all the decisions.
Put simply, precision, teaching, is a way to measure the quality of instruction, or intervention using the standard celerarion chart, and make rapid data based decisions... (precision, teachers have identified for guiding principles. The learner knows best only use observable behavior, measure behavior using frequency and chart data on the standard celerarion chart. Precision teaching can be applied to almost any instructional program and shows the rate with which learning occurs.”
- Van & Quigly (2023)
What is the Standard Celeration Chart (SCC)?
The engine that drives Precision Teaching is the standard celeration chart.
If you are not charting data on the standard celeration chart you are not precision teaching.
The y-axis was set up on a multiply scale to accommodate behavior frequencies ranging from 1 per day to 1,000 per minute; the x-axis was set up on an add scale to accommodate 140 successive calendar days, which is about the equivalent of one school semester. Thus, both frequent and infrequent behaviors could be plotted on the same graph and displayed for an entire semester.
Another important fact about the standard celeration chart is that they are all the same. Every SCC is the same.
When we use line graphs that are not standardized, we can manipulate the visual display to make interventions seem more or less effective based on how we scale the Y axis.
It can look scary to learn how to chart on this bad boy, so I make some videos on my social media to help you get you started. Fortunately this technology such as central, reaches precision X, and Aimstar, where you can simply plug-in the data, and it will be charted correctly.
How Can I Learn More About Precision Teaching?
To learn more, scan or click the QR code to access a playlist of short videos about Precision Teaching or book a consultation with me!
I am passionate in teaching others about Precision Teaching and I am available for speaking engagements:
“The learner is always right”
— Ogden Lindsley