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Interteaching: Bringing Behavioral Education Into the 21st Century

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In recent years, educators have lamented the current state of the American education system, citing a number of possible reasons for its purported downfall. One potential contributor to this negative state of affairs is the continued use of ineffective teaching methods. Interteaching, a new teaching method that has its roots in behavior analysis, offers an effective and user-friendly alternative to traditional approaches to classroom instruction. In this article, we describe interteaching. We also discuss a number of studies that have examined the efficacy of interteaching relative to more common teaching methods. Finally, we provide recommendations for researchers wishing to study this promising behavior-analytic teaching method.

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    Bryan K. Saville, Tonya Lambert & Stephen Robertson

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Saville, B.K., Lambert, T. & Robertson, S. Interteaching: Bringing Behavioral Education Into the 21st Century. Psychol Rec 61, 153–165 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395752

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