Reflection On Skinner's Behaviorist Operate Conditioning Theory

a. The goals I had for my classmates, understand what Skinner’s Behaviorist Operate Conditioning Theory. This is the idea that behavior is determined by, reinforcement, or punishment, which makes it more or less likely that the behavior will occur again. My second goal was to have them identify and understand reliability and validity. Reliability is the extent to which it will reproduce the same results. Well, validity is the quality of being factually sound. The third goal for my part of the lesson was them understand the standard error of measurement and know how they can find it. The last thing I wanted them to take away from the presentation was the understanding of authentic assessments. This is when you apply skills and abilities as they

There are many things I could have worked on during my presentation and I feel as if I will be responsible for them to have a lower grade on this assignment. One content issue I had was my article. I not only confused the other students but I confused myself. There are two things I think I could have done to make the content more understandable. First, I could have formatted differently to make it less confusing. Another thing I could have done to get rid of content issues is fix the errors that were on the slides that were not only confusing for me but again the students.

There were a couple of pedagogical aspects. The first method of teaching I used was oral lecturing. I spoke a lot of the time well giving eye contact to the other students. The main issue that many of the students had, for example, one student said, lots of lecture, and we need more examples to apply information. This is one area where I felt like I struggled with. I only had three examples and one video during my twelve minutes of presenting. I should have had more learning styles incorporated into my lesson such as, hands on activity, more visual

If I were to start this presentation over again I would do many things different. One thing that I would change is my approach when picking an article. My article was confusing and very difficult to relate to the main topic, which was traditional assessment. That is the second point that I want to talk about, getting on the main topic. I felt like during my part of the presentation I did not relate it back to traditional assessment. If that is the main topic that should be the main, focus of all the topics covered. I would then change the formatting that I used. It was very confusing to the people trying to following along. Therefore, if I would to change it I would shorten the information and just give the main points. Like you said, “focus on the forest not the trees”. I believe that I focused too much on the trees. There was too much information that was given in such a short amount of time. For learning differences, I think I could have incorporated more hands on activities or class activities. I focused so much on just reading the slides and getting that right I neglected working with the students, asking questions and making sure they understood the information. The only thing that I have noticed when doing class activities is the lack of participation in class. When it comes to over all things that I need to work on is my ability to speak in front of my peers well, being able to think ahead and make sure that everything sounds