Visitacion Kyle A, Van Stratton Jessica E, Wertalik Jennifer L
Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, 1903 W Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA.
Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA USA.
Behav Anal Pract. 2024 Nov 19;17(4):1089-1103. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-01016-x. eCollection 2024 Dec.
Employment offers many important benefits yet the majority of adults with disabilities are not represented in the workforce suggesting more research is needed on evidence-based vocational training for adults with disabilities (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). The evidence base for improving current vocational training practices can be expanded through more research on fluency-based instruction and precision teaching. Precision teaching has been demonstrated to improve skill repertoires in a number of academic settings but its application for vocational skill acquisition is still emerging. The present study evaluated precision teaching as a tool to teach employment skills and extended Cohen (2005). Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of precision teaching with frequency building on the acquisition of job skills for adults with disabilities and examine the effects of training component skills using frequency building at a simulated training site on composite skill performance at the job site requiring the vocational skill. The results suggest frequency building was successful at improving vocational component repertoires. Evaluations of fluency outcomes after aims were met found degradations in participants' component performances. Finally, maximizing the effects component skill fluency has on related composite repertoires may require composite skills to be explicitly trained.
就业带来许多重要益处，但大多数残疾成年人并未进入劳动力市场，这表明需要对针对残疾成年人的循证职业培训开展更多研究（美国劳工统计局，2024年）。通过对基于流畅性的教学和精准教学开展更多研究，可以扩大改进当前职业培训实践的证据基础。精准教学已被证明能在许多学术环境中提高技能储备，但它在职业技能获取方面的应用仍在不断涌现。本研究评估了精准教学作为一种教授就业技能的工具，并扩展了科恩（2005年）的研究。因此，本研究的目的是确定通过频率构建进行精准教学对残疾成年人获得工作技能的影响，并在模拟培训场所使用频率构建来训练组成技能，以检验其对在需要该职业技能的工作场所的综合技能表现的影响。结果表明，频率构建成功地改善了职业组成技能储备。在目标达成后对流畅性结果进行评估时，发现参与者的组成技能表现有所下降。最后，要最大化组成技能流畅性对相关综合技能储备的影响，可能需要对综合技能进行明确训练。
