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A Survey of Staff Training and Performance Management Practices: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Reed, Florence D. DiGennaro, Henley, Amy J.·2015·Behavior Analysis in Practice
DOI 10.1007/s40617-015-0044-5PMC PMC5048247
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The costs for delivering services to individuals with autism and other disabilities total more than $137 billion annually and grow exponentially. Given this figure, service-delivery organizations are under pressure to ensure staff are well-prepared to deliver services through the provision of training. Providing effective staff training and performance management is also necessary for the delivery of evidence-based practice and is an ethical obligation for Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc. (BACB®) certificants. The purpose of the present study was to document the various types of staff and supervisory training and performance management procedures offered to BACB® certificants and aspirants working in applied settings.

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  • A survey on staff training and performance management practices indicated that evidence-based training approaches were used in practice about half of the time.

    “Despite research suggesting that BST is an effective method for training individuals to implement DTT (Fingerhut & Moeyaert, 2022;Parsons et al., 2012), results from a survey on staff training and performance management practices indicated that evidence-based training approaches were used in practice about half of the time (DiGennaro Reed & Henley, 2015).”

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    The Initial or Pre-Service Training section reports that 46.89% of respondents who received initial training got performance feedback, and the Discussion says roughly 60% reported modeling. These are components of evidence-based training, but the Discussion also says a large majority did not receive the full training package. The paper does not establish that evidence-based approaches as a whole were used about half the time. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Reed, F. D. D., & Henley, A. J.
Affiliations
University of Kansas (US)
Corresponding author
Reed, Florence D. DiGennaro
ORCID
Reed, Florence D. DiGennaro
Venue
Behavior Analysis in Practice
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2015-02-20
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
16-26
ISSN
  • 1998-1929 (ISSN-L)
  • 2196-8934
DOI
10.1007/s40617-015-0044-5
PMC
PMC5048247
OpenAlex
W1995016687
Cited by
110
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4
FWCI
13.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Behavior Analysis in Practice (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Competency Development and Evaluation
Keywords
employee training, performance management, autism services, behavior analysts, supervisor training, applied behavior analysis, service delivery costs, evidence-based practice

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