A review of the literature on staff training strategies that minimize trainer involvement

The implementation of DTT procedures is the most commonly targeted skill in the BST literature.

“Although the implementation of DTT procedures is the most commonly targeted skill in the BST literature (59% of articles reviewed by Gerencser et al., 2020, and 34% of articles reviewed by Marano et al., 2020), Leaf et al. (2019) is the only review summarizing the research on training individuals to implement DTT procedures.”

The asynchronous self-instruction approach represents a more time- and resource-efficient method, which translates to improved cost effectiveness.

“Therefore, this asynchronous approach represents a more time-and resource-efficient method, which translates to improved cost effectiveness (Marano et al., 2020).”

Such training innovations may enhance participants' learning of the material and subsequent performance.

“Such training innovations may enhance participants' learning of the material and subsequent performance (Gerencser et al., 2020;Marano et al., 2020); however, the studies using these interactive media and audio components did not directly evaluate their utility compared with that of traditional training components (e.g., in-person modeling, video modeling without added interactive features; cf.Ge”

As video models do not require the presence of a trainer, they permit easy distribution of standardized training.

“As video models do not require the presence of a trainer, they permit easy distribution of standardized training (Gerencser et al., 2020;Marano et al., 2020).”

Marano et al. (2020) note that individual staff members may respond differently to various training procedures or prefer a particular training approach.

“Marano et al. (2020) note that individual staff members may respond differently to various training procedures or prefer a particular training approach; therefore, we recommend future studies continue to gather social-validity measures to understand the trainees' perspectives about their training experience and whether specific modalities are more or less preferred or perceived to be more or less”

It may be possible to train relatively simple DTT steps through video modeling, but more complex steps may require more extensive in vivo training with feedback.

“For instance, it may be possible to train relatively simple DTT steps (e.g., reinforcer delivery) through video modeling, but more complex steps (e.g., error correction) may require more extensive in vivo training with feedback (Gerencser et al., 2020;Marano et al., 2020).”

Stimulus preference assessments comprised 22.7% of articles reviewed in Gerencser et al., 2020, and 18.6% of articles reviewed in Marano et al., 2020.

“like stimulus preference assessments (22.7% of articles reviewed in Gerencser et al., 2020, and 18.6% of articles reviewed in Marano et al., 2020)”

Other areas of research may have discovered advancements in BST components that should be adapted to train all behavior-analytic procedures or skills.

“other areas of research, like stimulus preference assessments (22.7% of articles reviewed in Gerencser et al., 2020, and 18.6% of articles reviewed in Marano et al., 2020), may have discovered advancements in BST components that should be adapted to train all behavior-analytic procedures or skills.”