A New Take on Training

We asked you to share your ACBIS techniques, best practices, and interesting ideas with us. This month, we’re featuring a new training technique used by Matthew Sabo, M.S., BCBA, CBIST, NeuroInternational.

“The training experience at NeuroInternational is highly unique; the trainer creates quizzes customized to the content area of the readings and lectures. At the end of trainings, which last approximately one hour, participants launch an app called Plickers, which allows them to respond to quiz questions, stores their responses (including individual and group statistics), and provides them with immediate feedback on the correct answer.

Using Plickers, I have created a quiz on chapters one through four of the Essential Brain Injury Guide 5.0 and will be testing my class during our next session. I’m excited to try this because participants will get immediate feedback rather than having to wait for me to grade their quizzes! They just hold up the cards and I can scan them with my phone using Plickers, then we can see the scores and correct answer on screen. You can track each participant’s score over time as well as scores on each question. It’s a fun way to learn and people tend to like using this format. We are still trialing these techniques, which are at the forefront of instructive technologies, but we anticipate that they will help applicants study more effectively.”

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