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To be highly skilled in a task means you can do it quickly and without effort. Also known as fluency, fluent performers work easily and efficiently. This chapter will discuss the application of fluency within the classroom setting. Fluency is the combination of demonstrating a skill both with speed and accuracy. By targeting fluency as its own skill, accuracy and speed of completion can be combined to identify mastery criterion based on other experts in the skill. How to both target fluency as its own skill and measure fluency as part a part of a larger teaching program will be discussed with relevant examples included.
fluency, fluency building, acquisition, mastery, precision teaching
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Knutson, L.M. (2023). Fluency. In: Quigley, J., Cassano, M.J., Ackerlund Brandt, J.A. (eds) Incorporating Applied Behavior Analysis into the General Education Classroom. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35825-8_8
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