LINKS

Tutorial Services:

We are trying to create a more complete list of tutorial services, schools, and other educational service providers who use the methods of Precision Teaching, and who do not object to being listed, organized by location. We will not list e-mail addresses, as it is too easy for spammers to collect and misuse that information, but we will link known web sites. We would appreciate additions thereto, including locations outside the U.S. and Canada. That list may be found at:

NEW in 2002 was

THE FLUENCY FACTORY , Hingham, Massachusetts,
c/o Richard McManus

Precision Teaching Literature and Charts:

BEHAVIORBOOKS.ORG, c/o Renee Koehler Van Norman, Managing Editor

CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL STUDIES, in Concord, Massachusetts, and its CCBS Bookstore.

Michael Maloney's new Direct Instruction combined with Precision Teaching elementary school books are here, intended for Homeschoolers, as is the new (2002) book by Beatrice Barrett, "The Technology of Teaching Revisited: A Reader's Companion to B. F. Skinner's Book."

Look under "New at the Bookstore," where you will find, in addition to the new book by Bea Barrett, the new

"Handbook of the Standard Celeration Chart," 2003, H.S. Pennypacker, Anibal Gutierrez, Jr., and Ogden R. Lindsley.

If you are new to Charting, you will need this Handbook, and if you are an old hand, it is useful for the wealth of information it contains about ways to use the chart. This Handbook brings to date much that has been developed over the last thirty years with respect to Standard Charting. The intent is not to stultify new developments by codification, but to make the developments since the original Handbook available in one clear exposition.

The black and white version is available for $18 plus S&H.
The color, or Deluxe, version for $24 plus S&H.

You may also purchase the Handbook from the photocopy shop where it is produced, at the same price, in Florida:

Contact Eric Hill at 352 375-0797 or email Xerocopy@bellsouth.net.

With regard to SAFMEDS, you may need:

"Standard Celeration Charting 2002" by Steve Graf and Ogden Lindsley (2002).

You may order this from:
Graf Implements, 7779 Lee Run Rd, Portland OH 44514-2510. Steve also has some computer programs worth inquiring about, such as PracticeSheeter and a program for making SAFMEDS. This last will run under either PCs or MACs.

Or you can order Standard Celeration Charting 2002 from http://behaviordevelopmentsolutions.com/ Look under "Other Products."

To your door for $40 + S&H, either way.

Behavior Development Solutions also carries, also under "Other Products," Dr. Patrick McGreevy's "Teaching and Learning in Plain English, Second Edition," an excellent primer on Precision Teaching, as well as other materials.

Standard (and not-so-standard) Celeration Charts:

The Standard Celeration Chart, the Real McCoy, is printed on strong,thin, rag paper in blue ink, strong enough to withstand rough use over a school semester. Current charts, with different time ranges, are available from BRCo.

FAX Behavior Research Company at 913-362-5900, for current catalog, prices and shiping costs, and be sure to include your e-mail address. If this fax number gives you difficulty, try again, or try later.

The "6-cycle, 140-day chart" is the chart for most school uses, and the plastic "celeration finder" is helpful, as are "timings charts," a sort of hi-tech scrap paper that does not show celerations, but gives you a good place to record data temporarily. The Standard Celeration Chart, in its various forms, has been also known as and called the Standard Behavior Chart and, briefly, the Standard Change Chart. There are other forms of the Chart as well, useful in particular situations.

Computerized charts have their splendid uses (such as being able to share charts rapidly via the Internet). Still, there is a wide consensus in the Precision Teaching community that the BRCo paper charts have uses and benefits that are not duplicated or conferred by any electronic version, including, simply, that they constitute the standard. The paper charts were carefully designed after research on various alternatives, and have been in regular use since around 1965. They can be easily used with an overhead projector, and can be stacked together for this purpose, with perfect alignment, so that several overlaid charts can be viewed as a group, allowing direct comparisons of data. This procedure is not so easy electronically, if it can be done at all, although perhaps it could be done with a stack of BRCo charts scanned on a scanner, to produce a composite computer file. Each, paper chart and computer chart, has its virtues.

The excitement, the interest shown by school students when they keep their own paper charts is apt to be much less with electronically created charts.

With these caveats, then, here is the link for

SCOTT'S EXCEL CHART, and its subsequent improvements. We are all much indebted to Scott Born and Stuart Harder and Owen White for their work on the Excel template of the Standard Chart.

Also, and not yet quite ready for prime time, although getting very close, is http://AimChart.com. This is Dr. Charles Merbitz's multi-year project of creating a web-based standard chart, with records stored on a central computer. When this is completed to the satisfaction of all concerned, it will be possible to create a new "Behavior Bank" of anonymous recorded behavior.

Electronic, PC-computer compatible programs or services are available as well from Joe Parsons in Victoria, B.C., at (click here) CELERATION TECHNOLOGIES, who provides a computerized SAFMEDS and authoring program called THINKFAST, and from Normand Peladeau, in Montreal, Quebec, doing business as Provalis Research, a SAFMEDS and authoring program called PRACTICEMILL, as well as a statistical package called SIMSTAT. See and click here for: PROVALIS RESEARCH. Also there are the web-based services of THE LEARNING INCENTIVE. Little is specifically available for Macintosh computers, although some of these programs doubtless will run under Virtual PC.

At least two paper-based alternatives to the Standard Celeration Chart also exist.

One, available freely for downloading, was created by Normand Giroux of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and Nathan Crow, who, at the time of its creation, was serving as Principal of the Littleton Charter Preparatory School, in Littleton, Colorado.

Click PRECISION PEDAGOGY CHART or ASC, to obtain this alternate standard paper chart, available either in color or black & white. See also the notes there published for a discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of this alternate chart over the Standard Celeration Chart, from, of course, the perspective of this new chart's creators. You may find this a quick and easy way to get started with charting. There's nothing to keep you from getting the hang of charting with this chart, and then switching to the Standard (Lindsley) chart when you have made some progress. The original is useful for sharing data with others, and you will need to learn to use it for that purpose. But you may find this alternate chart a good place to begin.

Paper charts of yet another design are available from

SOPRIS WEST, educational publishers and providers of professional educational programs in Longmont, Colorado. Sopris West publishes precision teaching practice materials called "Skill Builders." For paper charts, look under the category "Instructional Strategies," and then under the heading, "Basic Skill Builders Program Student Materials Kit." Snail mail and telephone numbers are listed under "Customer Service."

Miscellaneous:

http://www.celeration.net
This is where you are.

http://www.celeration.com
This is BRCo's website. It now points to
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH COMPANY
http://behaviorresearchcompany.com/

http://www.celeration.org
This is the usual website of the Standard Celeration Society.

And please do not forget:

RICK KUBINA'S NEW (FALL, 2003) VERY OWN & HIGHLY USEFUL WEBSITE, with a downloadable 17-page guide to standard charting & some links not seen elsewhere. Click here and go to:
http://WWW.PRECISIONTEACHINGRESOURCE.NET

This list is but an introduction to the richness of the Precision Teaching literature.

Carl Binder has a new (2004) website containing important documents of the past and present at FLUENCY.ORG.

There are, in print, various curricular materials, available from a variety of sources. See especially, SOPRIS WEST, THE HAUGHTON LEARNING CENTER, MORNINGSIDE ACADEMY, and THE LEARNING INCENTIVE. Also Red Sarna's randomized mathematics and arithmetic drills, most with answers, can be downloaded and printed (and you may need Internet Explorer to do this) from http://bell.mma.edu/~sarna/ Look for Practice Sheets.

See also, for a variety of helpful explanations and a frequency finder template, Owen White's class website at the University of Washington, to wit: EDSPE510

Michael Fabrizio and Alison Moors have, or at least used to have, a 2 CD set of information for parents and caregivers of autistic children. You can reach Fabrizio/Moors Consulting at http://www.fabriziomoors.com/.

PT resources or help specifically for autism is a topic well beyond the scope of this page, but these CDs are worth mentioning here, since sometimes they are overlooked.

See also the reading lists and links located at the Standard Celeration Society website and at John Eshleman's website, referenced at http://www.celeration.org, and at Joe Parson's Celeration Technologies website, referenced above.

There have been a large number of Doctoral and Master's theses relating to PT produced over the thirty-five years of PT, most of them unpublished. Some of the published articles by Ogden Lindsley have been collected and put up on the web at http://www.teonor.com/ptdocs/. Use Google for even more information.

For those who can read French, Normand Giroux and Jacques Forget, of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), have a second edition of their book on Precision Teaching and allied matters in print: "Pour Un Nouveau Depart Assure en lecture, ecriture, mathematique et autres apprentissages personnels ou souciaux," subtitled "Guide pedagogique destine aux enseignants en difficulte." (I have left out the accents, which tend not to transmit well.) Click here for further information at http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r35251/sac.htm