Using Task Clarification and Feedback Training to Improve Staff Performance in an East African Nongovernmental Organization

Training supervisors to provide performance feedback using video modeling with voiceover instructions: A replication

Performance feedback is an effective strategy to improve and maintain therapist performance with implementing interventions. Shuler and Carroll (2019) successfully used video modeling with voiceover instructions (VMVO) to train supervisors to provide accurate performance feedback to a confederate therapist implementing guided compliance. In Study 1, we replicated Shuler and Carroll by using VMVO to train 5 supervisors to provide performance feedback to a confederate therapist on their guided-compliance integrity. Feedback accuracy increased following VMVO and maintained for 1 month. In Study 2, we extended Shuler and Carroll by demonstrating improvements in therapist guided-compliance integrity after they received performance feedback from supervisors from Study 1. The results of the current study support the use of VMVO to teach supervisory skills to behavior analysts.

Training Supervisors to Provide Performance Feedback Using Video Modeling with Voiceover Instructions

Supervisors commonly use feedback to teach staff members to implement behavioral interventions. However, few studies have evaluated methods to teach supervisors to provide effective feedback. We used a multiple-baseline design to evaluate the use of video modeling with voice-over instruction to train 4 supervisors to provide performance feedback to a confederate therapist implementing a guided-compliance procedure. We assessed supervisors' accuracy with implementing 8 feedback component skills during scripted role-plays before and after video modeling. We also assessed the extent to which supervisors' skills generalized when providing feedback to a confederate therapist implementing novel behavioral procedures (i.e., discrete-trial training and mand training) and an actual therapist implementing the guided-compliance procedure with a child with autism. All supervisors mastered the feedback component skills following video modeling. Overall, the results of the current study suggest that video modeling may be an efficacious and efficient method to train supervisors.

Planning and Leading Effective Meetings

Behavior analysts spend a great deal of time in meetings regardless of their specific professional role (e.g., academic, practice, administration), so effective meeting skills are important. Meetings can serve a variety of important purposes if they are planned and led well. However, many people are not explicitly taught how to plan or lead meetings effectively. The purpose of this paper is to describe the common purposes of meetings and to provide recommendations and tools for planning and leading effective meetings.