Title: RE: is this sabotage?
At 8:32 AM -0800 3/28/06, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
Oh my God! I'm ignorant :(  :(  :(
Who in the world are Al Cone, Donna Cone and Fred Keller?

We're talking about serious behaviorists here!
I'm not familiar with the work of the Cone's (they're applied behavior analysts).
Fred Keller was a grad school buddy of Fred (BF) Skinner, and (among other things) developed a teaching system which he labeled the Personalized System of Instruction, based on breaking the course material into units, having each student work on a unit until it was mastered at an 'A' level, then move on to the next.
Material was usually presented textually rather than in a lecture, and the grade was based on the number of units mastered in sequence, rather than some qualitative measure of performance.
There are of course many more details (see http://www.lafayette.edu/allanr/psi.html).
These days PSI systems are often implemented via CAI.

Annette

Quoting Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
At 9:03 AM -0600 3/28/06, Anthony Golden wrote:
I retired from the psyc dept at Austin Peay State University here in
Clarksville TN back in 2003 after 23 years on the faculty.  I actually
started back in 1970 at Lynchburg College (Lynchburg, Virginia) teaching PSI

I thought there was a psychic influence involved ;-)
intro psyc courses with Al and Donna Cone and creating classroom management

and yes, I'm a Fred Keller fan and have been using the system about as long as you.

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