Standard Celeration Society
Contact Info
- Kerri Milyko
- Florida
- Phone: (813) 778-5201
- SIG website
- SIG News (September 2011)
Mission Statement
The undertaking of the Standard Celeration Society (SCS) is to promote standard measurement and monitoring of behavior frequencies and their celerations.
Description of Membership
We have a wide array of members: parents, teachers, academics, students, business owners, mathematicians, administrators, and psychologists. The members unite with a common interest in using the standard celeration chart guide analyses of behavior frequencies and celerations. An SCS membership offers full electronic access to all issues of the Journal for Precision Teaching and Celeration.
Annual or Recurring Events
We gather over a weekend in the winter for our annual International Precision Teaching Conference. This conference is held all over the continental USA.
Newsletters/Publications
The Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration (JPTC) is the scientific journal of the Standard Celeration Society. The yearly publication provides a forum for research, practical applications, and discussions of precision teaching and celeration technology. JPTC has dedicated itself to the promotion and diffusion of precision teaching and standard celeration technologies. Readers can enjoy 1) application articles, 2) research articles, 3) discussion articles, 4) chart shares, and 5) technical notes. It is available electronically to all SCS members.
Specifically of Interest to Behavior Analysts
Since 1990 the Standard Celeration Society (SCS) has been a collegial organization for all persons who use standard celeration charts to monitor and change human behavior frequencies. The society's heritage lies greatly in precision teaching and its founder, Ogden R. Lindsley, who in 1972 came up with the term "precision teaching" because "what was really new in our procedure was precision, we decided to use that as an adjective in front of whatever it was one was doing: hence in our case, 'precision teaching.'" Lindsley (1971) hoped that the standard recording and charting system would be used throughout the behavioral fields as precision school psychology, precision social work (Green & Morrow, 1972), precision speech therapy (Johnson, 1972), and so on. Dr. Lindsley's greatest contribution, as written in a tribute by T. V. Joe Layng, was his showing "that bringing frequency to the people revealed not only his heart, but the heart that resides in the science of human behavior as well." The SCS encourages the development and growth of a science of human behavior and learning, and promotes using the standard celeration chart to further that objective. Ultimately, we have a society to create a more loving, less fearful world.