Toward Increasing the Efficiency of Computer‐Based Instruction for Staff Training

There is increased demand for supervisors to develop staff training procedures that are efficient, such as those that promote generalized responding. Computer‐based instruction (CBI) is effective and efficient and can be enhanced by general‐case procedures. Therefore, experiment one employed a non‐concurrent multiple baseline design with adults to evaluate the generalized effects of general‐case analysis to inform CBI. We found this combination moderately effective in facilitating generalization of staff training. Experiment two used a non‐concurrent multiple baseline to evaluate general case analysis and modified general case programming to inform CBI to specifically increase recombinative generalization. We then identified the extent of recombinative generalization along a recombinative generalization gradient. Most participants demonstrated recombinative generalization and that fewer combinations of procedures were more likely to occur than all of them combined. Implications for staff trainers and researchers include pre‐training of skill acquisition trial arrangements and further evaluations of general‐case procedures.