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Monique Fontes 11/05/03 Cognition and Individual Differences Mid Term Exam: short essays 5.) Precision teaching is a meticulous, systematic form of evaluating instruction, which among other things, is based on the setting of good objectives. By creating goals a teacher can communicate to the learner what is expected of him or her, while also establishing set standards for evaluating the progression of both the teacher and the learner. In order to be a good, effective objective, five criteria must be fulfilled. These criteria insist that an objective be a behavior or the result of one, that the behavior be observable, measurable, and stated clearly enough that an outsider would also be able to account for the described behavior, and finally, that the objective be focused on a learned behavior. Setting objectives to improve the progress of a child who has just been introduced to a communication board is an example of precision teaching. Three...

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