As described in the previous post, teaching problem-solving strategies may be an important task for any involved in teaching young children. In the same issue, Carr and LeBlanc (2011) has systematically replicated the Sautter et al 2011 study.
In this replication they used a visual imaging problem-solving strategy instead of covert intraverbal prompting and probing. Read more…
Problem solving is an important skill, and on that may not have been studied to much within the behavior analytic literature. Establishing intraverbal repertoires have been studied quite a lot, but several studies have shown that traditional training in establishing direct intraverbal control creates a small and restricted repertoire.
To be able to facilitate a more flexible intraverbal repertoire, Sauter et al (2011) has incorporated the teaching of a problem solving strategy when teaching preschoolers intraverbal categorization skills. Read more…
The online bookstore Different Roads to Learning has published an excellent video from the online tool Rethink Autism on myths and misconceptions on applied behavior analysis for children with autism. It´s a great piece of video that should be watched;
Peer review is the safe guard of scientific publications and is supposed to ensure the quality of the published research, upholding the scientific standards. But in an article translated from the Danish web-site videnskap.dk and published on the Norwegian web-site forskning.no there are some challenges in the system of peer review that may pose a threath on the scientific standards.
The article points out the following issues that may need to be adressed; the reviews may not be objective but be gouverned by the reviewers personal attitudes and professional interests. The article also points out that many publications are sceptical new theories, and favor research supporting established theories.
The authors of this article also claims that the peer review system is not were effective in discovering scientific cheating, and the investigating process will in this system often be time consuming. Related to this it is also problematic for editors and reviewers to have a complete overview of published research, and have difficulties in determining if the research submitted for publications is bringing in new elements.
The article sums up the possible challenges of peer reviews in the fact that it often is the only quality control that published research goes through. And these elements should always be present when reading and evaluating published research.
Due to unknown reasons, my blog lost all it´s content and the WordPress installation stopped working. I applogize for this and will be working on restoring the blog, and adding new content.
I will also be more careful in making bacups….