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Standard (and not-so-standard) Celeration Charts
The Standard Celeration Chart is printed on strong,thin,
rag paper in blue ink, strong enough to withstand rough use
over a school semester. Current charts, with different time
ranges, are available from BRCo. FAX Behavior Research Company
at 913-362-5900, for current catalog, prices and shipping
costs, and be sure to include your e-mail address. If this
fax number gives you difficulty, try again, or try later.
The "6-cycle, 140-day chart" is the chart for
most school uses, and the plastic "celeration finder" is
helpful, as are "timings charts," a sort of hi-tech
scrap paper that does not show celerations, but gives you
a good place to record data temporarily. The Standard Celeration
Chart, in its various forms, has been also known as and called
the Standard Behavior Chart and, briefly, the Standard Change
Chart.
Computerized charts have their splendid uses (such as being
able to share charts rapidly via the Internet). Still, there
is a wide consensus in the Precision Teaching community that
the BRCo paper charts have uses and benefits that are not
duplicated or conferred by any electronic version, including,
simply, that they constitute the standard. The paper charts
were carefully designed after research on various alternatives,
and have been in regular use since around 1965. They can
be easily used with an overhead projector, and can be stacked
together for this purpose, with perfect alignment, so that
several overlaid charts can be viewed as a group, allowing
direct comparisons of data. This procedure is not so easy
electronically, if it can be done at all, although perhaps
it could be done with a stack of BRCo charts scanned on a
scanner, to produce a composite computer file. Each, paper
chart and computer chart, has its virtues.
The excitement, the interest shown by school students when
they keep their own paper charts is apt to be much less with
electronically created charts.
With these caveats, then, here is the link for Scott's
Excel Chart (people.ku.edu/~borns/)
and its subsequent improvements. We are all much indebted
to Scott Born and Stuart Harder for their work on the Microsoft
Excel template of the Standard Chart.
At least two paper-based alternatives to the Standard Celeration
Chart also exist.
One, available freely for downloading, was created by Normand
Giroux of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) and
Nathan Crow, who, at the time of its creation, was serving
as Principal of the Littleton Charter Preparatory School,
in Littleton, Colorado. See www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r35251/liens/evenements.htm and
click Precision Pedagogy Chart to obtain this alternate
standard paper chart, available either in color or black-and-white.
See also the notes there published for a discussion of the
relative advantages and disadvantages of this alternate chart
over the Standard Celeration Chart, from, of course, the
perspective of this new chart's creators. You may find this
a quick and easy way to get started with charting.
Paper charts of yet another design are available from Sopris
West (www.sopriswest.com/),
educational publishers and providers of professional educational
programs in Longmont, Colorado. Sopris West publishes precision
teaching practice materials called "Skill Builders." For
paper charts, look under the category "Instructional
Strategies," and then under the heading, "Basic
Skill Builders Program Student Materials Kit." Snail
mail and telephone numbers are listed under "Customer
Service."
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