Programming for Survival: a Meeting System That Survives 8 Years Later

Overview

Journal J Appl Behav Anal

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 1994 Jan 1

PMID 7928787

Citations 4

Authors

T M Welsh

L K Miller

D E Altus

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Abstract

Effective and useful interventions often deteriorate when researchers withdraw their direct supervision. We tested the survival of an intervention designed to produce effective weekly meetings in a student housing cooperative without direct researcher supervision. Chairperson performance, proposals completed per hour, and ratings of chairperson performance all increased when resident staff used a training manual, prompting checklist, and performance reviews. Eight years of follow-up revealed continuing high levels of meeting effectiveness. This study demonstrates a methodology for the direct observation and experimental analysis of intervention survival.

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