Community-Referenced Instruction: Research and Issues

@article{Snell1986CommunityReferencedIR,
  title={Community-Referenced Instruction: Research and Issues},
  author={Martha E. Snell and Diane M. Browder},
  journal={Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities},
  year={1986},
  volume={11},
  pages={1 - 11}
}
  • M. E. Snell, D. Browder
  • Published 1 March 1986
  • Psychology
  • Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities
This review addresses some of the more crucial teaching and learning issues that arise when community-referenced instruction is applied to persons with severe disabilities. These issues include environmental assessment, task analysis, trial sequencing, control, empirical and social validity, and measurement. A stimulus set of standards that emerged from the literature reviewed was presented to guide and evaluate future community-referenced research. 
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