Behaviorism Timeline

This timeline covers the history of behaviorism in education according to the readings in R511 IT Foundations.

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1865-09-26 17:31:13

Positivism antecedes Behaviorism

Auguste Comte, Ivan Sechenov, Ivan Pavlov, and Vladimir Bekhterev

1911-09-26 17:31:13

Max F. Meyer

develops rudiments of behavioristic psychology

1911-09-26 17:31:13

Thorndike's Theorems

law of recency, effect, exercise

1913-09-26 17:31:13

Joh B Watson's "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It"

describes behaviorism as a formal system

1926-09-26 17:31:13

Sidney Pressey

invents mechanical device for instruction

1929-09-26 17:31:13

Ralph Tyler

uses behavioral description in curriculum instruction

1930-09-26 17:31:13

Neobehaviorism

Edwin Guthrie, Edward Tolman, and Clark Hull.

1933-03-11 04:12:45

Edwin Guthrie

one trial learning

1938-03-11 04:12:45

Skinner proponent of radical behaviorism

1940-09-26 17:31:13

Franklin Bobbitt

develops modern concept of Behaviorism in "The Curriculum."

1940-09-26 17:31:13

Hullian Era

Hull influential to Kenneth Spence, Neal Miller, Hobart Mowrer, Albert Bandura

1948-09-26 17:31:13

Development of taxonomic analyses

of learning behaviors

1948-12-04 12:33:05

Tolman a purposive behaviorist

1948-12-04 12:33:05

Skinner discusses superstitious behavior

1949-09-26 17:31:13

Tyler Rationale

"in Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction"

1950-09-26 17:31:13

Computer assisted instruction

1950-12-04 12:33:05

Skinner arguest theories get in way

1954-09-26 17:31:13

B. F. Skinner's teaching machine

1956-09-26 17:31:13

Bloom's taxonomy - cognitive domain

1957-12-04 12:33:05

Ferster & Skinner's behavior maintenance

1957-12-04 12:33:05

Schoenfield argues

language learned in one's sociocultural environment

1959-09-26 17:31:13

DAVI convention

focused on AV media

1959-09-26 17:31:13

DAVI Convention

has several sessions on programmed instruction

1960-09-26 17:31:13

Denver pilot program

to train teachers as programmers

1960-09-26 17:31:13

PLATO project

1960-09-26 17:31:13

Programmed tutoring

by Douglas Ellson

1960-09-26 17:31:13

Direct Instruction

by Siegfried Engelmann

1961-09-26 17:31:13

Manhasset Junior High Experiment

in programmed instruction

1962-09-26 17:31:13

Robert Mager's Preparing Instructional Objectives

stimulated interest in behavioral objectives.

1962-09-26 17:31:13

Finn-Perrin survey

Found equal companies in producing machines and developing instruction

1962-09-26 17:31:13

Crowder's branching programming

1962-09-26 17:31:13

National Society for Programmed Instruction

1963-09-26 17:31:13

AV Communication Review

published articles mostly on teaching machines and programmed instruction

1964-09-26 17:31:13

Bloom's Taxonomy - affective domain

1964-09-26 17:31:13

Individually prescribed instruction

Learning Research and Development Center

1964-12-04 12:33:05

Timeout used on autistic boy

with success by Wolf, Risley, and Mees

1965-09-26 17:31:13

Individually Guided Education

Herbert Klausmeier

1965-09-26 17:31:13

James Finn says IT a way of thinking

about instruction

1966-12-04 12:33:05

Azrin & Holz support punishment

as a way to stop a behavior quickly

1967-09-26 17:31:13

CCC founded

by Patrick Suppes, Richard Atkinson, and William Estes

1968-09-26 17:31:13

Keller Plan

"personalized" course in psychology

1968-09-26 17:31:13

Skinner coins "technology of teaching"

1969-09-26 17:31:13

Education turns to business for solutions

1969-09-26 17:31:13

TICCIT Project

emphasis on learner control

1970-09-26 17:31:13

AECT is born

1971-12-04 12:33:05

Locke supports punishment

to stop self-abuse in children with special needs

1972-09-26 17:31:13

Performance Contracting Ends

1972-09-26 17:31:13

Harrow's Taxonomy - psychomotor domain

1972-09-26 17:31:13

Robert Gagne's Taxonomy

1972-12-04 12:33:05

Sulzer & Mayer offer conditions for timeout

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