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| Accomplishment Based Performance Improvement and Instruction: A Focus on Valuable Contributions |
| Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
| 3:00 PM–3:50 PM |
| Marriott Marquis, M2 Level, Marquis Salon 1-5 |
| Area: PRA/OBM; Domain: Applied Research |
| Chair: Kent Johnson (Morningside Academy) |
| CE Instructor: Kent Johnson, Ph.D. |
| Presenting Author: CARL BINDER (The Performance Thinking Network, LLC) |
| Abstract: Tom Gilbert encouraged a focus on what he called “valuable accomplishments” rather than on “costly behavior” in analysis and design for performance improvement. Joe Harless, Gilbert’s protégé, introduced ABCD, Accomplishment Based Curriculum Development. This session overviews a next-generation accomplishment-based performance analysis and intervention design methodology called Performance Thinking® with two simple models, 21 plain English words, and an application “logic” for individuals/roles, processes, culture change, and overall accomplishment-based talent development. The session will feature an ABAI application, Kent Johnson’s and the ABAI Task Force's initiative for micro-credentialing, unpacking steps in an analysis and instructional design process to enable learners to produce valuable accomplishments. Examples of micro-credentialing might include modules that enable learners to produce Treatment Plans (or their sub-outputs), Instructional Program Designs, Needs Assessments, Data-based Decisions, or Improved Relationships with Parents. Once identified, these valuable outputs or accomplishments lead to component analysis, identifying behavior elements to be fluent, behavior easily guided by job aids, and prerequisites in learners’ existing repertoires. As an added advantage, accomplishment-based instruction is easier to measure, once we identify outputs with criteria that define “good” instances of each. Simply measured, instruction is successful when learners produce examples of the work outputs that meet criteria. |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Target Audience: All conference participants. |
Learning Objectives: 1. Draw the Performance Chain illustrating the units of analysis in performance.
2. Identify six categories of variables or behavior influences that comprise a system.
3. List possible work outputs or accomplishments for micro-credentialing. |
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| CARL BINDER (The Performance Thinking Network, LLC) |
 Dr. Carl Binder is CEO of The Performance Thinking Network, certifying performance consultants and developing leaders and managers worldwide. He studied at Harvard with B.F. Skinner and, as Associate Director of B.H. Barrett’s Behavior Prosthesis Lab during the 1970s, conducted research and implemented Precision Teaching in classrooms, clinics, and multi-disciplinary therapy teams, introducing Precision Teaching to hundreds of teachers during the 1970s, including Dr. Kent Johnson in 1978. Since Ogden Lindsley encouraged him to move into organizational consulting in 1978, Carl has taught performance improvement and fluency-based instruction to non-specialists using plain language and simple models. He has received career awards from the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Performance Improvement, the OBM Network, and the Standard Celeration Society. He lives on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle (USA). Learn about his work at PerformanceThinking.TV, PerformanceThinking.com and Fluency.org. |
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