An Evaluation of a Staff Management Strategy to Minimize Reactivity in Procedural Fidelity of Intervention Implementers

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate reactivity to observation and increase procedural fidelity in observer absent conditions by delivering feedback to participants following observer absent observation sessions. Two of the three participants increased their rate of positive social engagements above criterion level following behavioral skills training (BST) and feedback in the observer present condition, but this increase was not seen in the observer absent condition. After the delivery of feedback in the observer absent condition, the participants exhibited an increase procedural fidelity. The third participant responded above criterion in the observer present condition during baseline and so went straight into feedback in the observer absent condition following BST and showed an increase in performance also. Responding during generalization probes suggested that feedback should be delivered in all contexts in which procedural fidelity is expected of implementers.

KEYWORDS:

• Feedback
• procedural fidelity
• reactivity
• staff management

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).