Which approach identifies the skills to be taught and uses direct daily measurement of the student's performance to acquire the skills?

Which approach identifies the skills to be taught and uses direct daily measurement of the student's performance to acquire the skills?

• A. Implicit Instruction
• B. Precision Teaching
• C. Direct Instruction
• D. Task Analysis

Answer: (B)

Precision Teaching combines clearly defined target skills with frequent, objective measurement of performance to guide instruction. In this approach, the teacher specifies exactly what the student will do—observable, measurable behaviors—and then tracks each practice trial, often daily. Those data are plotted on standard charts so progress, rate of improvement, and accuracy are visible at a glance. Because the measurement happens every day, instruction can be adjusted quickly—if fluency isn’t growing, practice, prompts, or pacing can be changed; if progress is strong, the pace can increase. This daily, data-driven process is what makes Precision Teaching distinct. Implicit Instruction relies on learning with minimal explicit practice and measurement; Direct Instruction centers on explicit, teacher-led teaching but doesn’t inherently require daily performance data to the same extent; Task Analysis focuses on breaking tasks into steps rather than ongoing daily data-driven progress monitoring.

Precision Teaching combines clearly defined target skills with frequent, objective measurement of performance to guide instruction. In this approach, the teacher specifies exactly what the student will do—observable, measurable behaviors—and then tracks each practice trial, often daily. Those data are plotted on standard charts so progress, rate of improvement, and accuracy are visible at a glance. Because the measurement happens every day, instruction can be adjusted quickly—if fluency isn’t growing, practice, prompts, or pacing can be changed; if progress is strong, the pace can increase. This daily, data-driven process is what makes Precision Teaching distinct. Implicit Instruction relies on learning with minimal explicit practice and measurement; Direct Instruction centers on explicit, teacher-led teaching but doesn’t inherently require daily performance data to the same extent; Task Analysis focuses on breaking tasks into steps rather than ongoing daily data-driven progress monitoring.