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FAQs about the Standard Celeration Chart
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Q: What's the Standard Celeration Chart?
A: For a description of the history of Precision Teaching
and the rationale for the use of the Standard Celeration Chart,
see this page from Athabasca University, Psych 387.
and
this fairly easy to read article,
Calkin, A.B. (2005).Precision Teaching: The Standard Celeration Charts. The Behavior Analyst Today, 6, 207-213.
Q: Where can I get Standard Celeration Charts?
A: To get the original standard, from the founder and source, visit Behavior Research Co..
There are also alternative and computer versions of the chart.
See THIS PAGE for sources.
Q: Is there only one kind of chart?
A: No, although in regular teaching the Tpmin-4EC Timings Chart,
and the Dpmin-11EC Daily per minute chart are the two most commonly used.
CLICK HERE to see ALL the different celeration charts available.
Q: Is the chart hard to use?
A: No! Someone suggested using the slogan "simple enough for a caveman" (but that's been taken), but it certainly is simple enough so that a CHILD can learn to chart his or her own progress; in fact, in many situations, it has been shown that student charting results in improved performance without making any other change, because it gives the learner an interest in his or her own progress and a visual yardstick to compare by.
One example is the slideshow "Charting rates with Stephanie Bates", where 5 year old Stephanie Bates demonstrates how to use a Standard Celeration Chart.
Another video example is a [classroom reading triad of three elementary school students from the Roger Bacon Academy/Charter Day School of Leland,North Carolina, a public charter school (Mark Cramer, Head Master, Baker Mitchell, Director). This is a typical performance of the students; first alone to demonstrate the procedure of repeated reading AND CHARTING, and then as a full class to see typical implementation.
Note: Baker asked for a few references to be posted to give context and additional information for the video:
Cancio, E.J., & Maloney, M. (1994) Teaching students how to proficiently utilize the Standard Celeration Chart. Journal of Precision Teaching, 12, 15-30.
ABSTRACT:
Precision Teaching has complemented other instructional methods with some of the most powerful applications combining Precision Teaching and Direct Instruction. A 1982 article in this Journal by the second author described a Direct Instruction program to teach students to proficiently chart the Standard Celeration Chart. Further development of the Direct Instruction program, including procedures and actual lesson plans, is presented below.
Cancio, E.J., & Maloney, M (1994). Teaching peer-tutors how to proficiently utilize the Standard Celeration Chart: A field test. Journal of Precision Teaching, 12, 8-14.
ABSTRACT:
Over the last 14 years students with varying levels of age and ability have been taught by a Direct Instruction procedure to
chart the Standard Celeration Chart. Lesson plans for learning the Chart have been modified to accommodate developments in
data-based decision making. Three peer tutors in a regular middle school were trained to use the Chart in a special education classroom serving students with autism and severe mental retardation. All peer tutors mastered charting after completion of the lesson plans!
Other papers in the Journal of Precision Teaching, and Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration
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Q: How do I use it? Where can I learn?
A: See the MUST-HAVE TEXTS, but there are also some online resources for getting started:
Print out a facsimile chart
to look at and practice with.
Standard celeration charts of many different types can be purchased at Behavior Research Co..
Then read,
Tutorial of Celeration Charting
Author: Dr. Rick Kubina, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University;
from his website Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting
Also see,
The Standard Celeration Chart: An overview of its features and conventions (aka, The Chartbook)
and
The Finder Book for the Standard Celeration Chart.
scroll to the bottom of the page. This manual describes use of the Frequency Finder with a standard celeration chart.
Author: Dr. Owen White, Ph.D., University of Washington.
Files prepared for EDSPE 510: Classroom Measurement and Management
Q:What's the Calendar Synchronization date and...why?
A: Why Chart synchronization?
To simplify references to weeks, rather than searching chart for a date.
To simplify comparisons to different skills and different students, even in different locations.
The chart-convention is that the first chart of the academic year starts on
the Sunday of the week of U.S. Labor Day.
The second chart begins 20 weeks after the first chart start date.
Traditionally that runs through the end of the academic year.
The 3rd chart begins 20 weeks after the 2nd chart.
The following year the process begins anew on the Sunday of the week of labor day, and so on.
To download a synchronization calendar through 2023 (pdf).
A backup site to check calendars--internet perennial calendar
Calendar Synchronization Dates 1965-2006
--this file was requested for folks who might want to rechart old research data.
For more details, see discussion of SCC calendar lock-in date at the The Standard Celeration Society.
1/4/08-This link is inactive and page not yet locatable; 'will post updated link if/when page is found.
Q: Are there any examples that I can look at?
A: Yes! See the posted charts at Ben Bronz Academy/The Learning Incentive
Charts shared from 1999-2001
and
To see a variety of Precision Teaching and charting examples specific or relevant to children
on the autism spectrum look at Organization for Research and Learning formerly Fabrizio-Moors Consulting:
Professional Work Examples
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For other more technical FAQs of the Standard Celeration Chart
see: The FAQ page of the Standard Celeration Society; Standard Celeration Charting Q & A
1/4/08-Link updated
2/8/08
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