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Peer reviewedSpooner, Fred; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1986
Variations of backward chaining--backward chaining with leap-aheads (BCLA) and reverse chaining with leap-aheads (RCLA)-- were compared with four severely retarded learners (17-32 years) who were trained on two complex vocational tasks. Learning rate for the BCLA procedure was superior to the RCLA procedure. Time to criterion differences were…
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Comparative Analysis, Serial Learning, Severe Mental Retardation
