Hi I m Ryan O Donnell, I m with Florida Tech s Orlando Campus, and today I am going to review a book titled Standard Celeration Charting 2002 by

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1 Hi I m Ryan O Donnell, I m with Florida Tech s Orlando Campus, and today I am going to review a book titled Standard Celeration Charting 2002 by Steve Graf and Ogden Lindsley. 1

2 The book was written by Steve Graf, who is credited for his work in Precision Teaching, Information Mapping, and initiating chartshares at conventions And Ogden Lindsley, a student of Skinner, who s credited for the first human operant lab, as well as developing Precision Teaching. 2

3 Precision Teaching is a set of measurement and teaching strategies that can be used with the Standard Celeration Chart. A couple of these strategies are: Child Knows Best Dead Person s Test Try-3-At-Once Making the perfect lunch for any behavioral scientist! 3

4 Briefly the SCC is: Six Cycle Semi-Log chart That includes successive Calendar days across the bottom The Right Y axis that lists time, and the left count per minute And it focuses on changes in rate over time. 4

5 The authors follow the rule of speaking, thinking and writing in Plain English, which is highlighted throughout the entire book. It involves removing the Jargon of a field, and writing as simply as possible to convey the message. 5

A non-example of Plain English would be describing negative reinforcement as the withdrawal of an aversive stimulus following the occurrence of a response (within a given functional response class)

6 A non-example of Plain English would be describing negative reinforcement as the withdrawal of an aversive stimulus following the occurrence of a response (within a given functional response class) which then increases or strengthens the future rate of behavior within that class under similar antecedent conditions. However, such a term can also be described in Plain English as relief, or: when something is happening before the movement, the movement makes that thing go away, and as a result the daily count of that movement goes up. 6

7 A non-example of Plain English would be describing negative reinforcement as an the withdrawal of an aversive stimulus following the occurrence of a response (within a given functional response class) which then increases or strengthens the future rate of behavior within that class under similar antecedent conditions. However, such a term can also be described in Plain English as relief, or: when something is happening before the movement, the movement makes that thing go away, and as a result the daily count of that movement goes up. 7

8 The book is also Information Mapped. Information Mapping includes techniques and standards that allows authors to break complex information into its most basic elements and then present those elements optimally for readers. 8

9 Almost every text available could be a non-exemplar of information mapping. Text books like this can often seem to go by quite slowly. It often requires that the reader find the relevant components within a paragraph and derive their own statements or rules from the paragraph. 9

10 Now here s an example from the book of information mapping in use. Imagine this is a page of the book, and notice that they state a topic to the left in the margin, and then provide bullets of information about the topic to accelerate readability and learning, as opposed to bulky paragraphs. 10

11 There are a couple other really neat features that Graf and Lindsley encompassed in this book such as practice sheets that cover a variety of different SCC-related topics, including learning pictures, or identifying where a dot is dropped on a chart, as well as SAFMEDS set. 11

12 AN example of the practice sheet would consist of starting a timer for 10 seconds, and saying Crossover Jaws Climb Takeoff Uphill Aim Midlevel Tracks Rockbottom Downhill And dropping the corresponding dot! 12

13 SAFMEDS represent an approach to learning similar to flashcards, however it emphasize accurate performance and speed. Seen here is 9 of the 99 included with book. They are to be said all fast, a minute each day, and shuffled. 13

14 The content involved in the book includes instructions, explanations, and examples of how to chart. It also focuses in on the implications of the SCC, and why other methods of graphing are inferior. Let s pit them together and see how they fair. 14

15 Graf and Lindsley highlight the overabundance of idiosyncratic stretch to fill graphs that impede quick, easy, and accurate viewing due to graph-specific axes. This is an example of an add-subtract Fill The Frame Graph from the book. 15

16 Seen here is an the same data as the previous slide, however this time graphed to include a multiply-divide scale on the Y-Axis. The variance or bounce is nearly gone, and the effect is not quite so drastic either. So, why the SCC? Well the benefits of the are 16

17 So, why the SCC? Well the benefits of the are That any rate of behavior from per minute can be graphed, It keeps time real, It provides a standard that can be used to compare across different responses, And one can identify and compare different learning pictures Oh wait! I almost forgot the all important record floor, or observation time! 17

18 This picture includes the previous two graphs we saw, with the data also on the SCC. The layout is what Graf and Lindsley coined the 3-View Fill the frame add-subtract scale Fill the Frame multiply-divide scale, And the SCC all in 1 view to allow for comparison. All with quite different pictures 18

19 With that, this is about all the time I have, so please pick up a copy. Read it, live it, love it, and good luck finding it, because I haven t been able to find a copy for the last two months! Care enough to chart! 19

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