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Overview

Christopher H. Skinner is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with particular attention to developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, education, and statistics and probability.

The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Subfields of study related to their work encompass:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Education
  • Statistics and Probability

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as:

  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Disability Education and Employment

Christopher H. Skinner has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers include:

  • Toward a More Comprehensive Evaluation of Interventions: A Dose-Response Curve Analysis of an Explicit Timing Intervention, 2020, School Psychology Review
  • Using Tootling to Enhance First-Grade Students' Use of a Social Skill: Evaluating the Catching Compliments Game, 2021, Education and Treatment of Children
  • Interdependent Group Rewards: Rewarding On-Task Behavior Versus Academic Performance in an Eighth-Grade Classroom Serving Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2020, Behavioral Disorders
  • Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Interventions: An Interaction of Instructional Set Size and Dose, 2020, School Psychology Review
  • Interdependent Group-Oriented Contingencies: Randomly Selected Components to the Rescue, 2021, Teaching Exceptional Children

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Psychology in the Schools
  • School Psychology
  • School Psychology Review
  • Teaching Exceptional Children
  • Journal of Behavioral Education

Collaborations feature repeated co-authorship with several researchers, including:

  • Margaret Crewdson
  • S. Paul Wright
  • Merilee McCurdy
  • Kristen Fowler
  • Gary J. Duhon

Best Publications

  • Functional Behavioral Assessment: Principles, Procedures, and Future Directions.

    Frank M. Gresham;T. Steuart Watson;Christopher H. Skinner

  • Altering Response Topography to Increase Response Efficiency and Learning Rates.

    Christopher H. Skinner;Phillip J. Belfiore;Holly W. Mace;Shandra Williams-Wilson

  • Increasing learning rates by increasing student response rates: A summary of research.

    Christopher H. Skinner;Priscilla A. Fletcher;Carlen Henington

  • Evaluating and Comparing Interventions Designed to Enhance Math Fact Accuracy and Fluency: Cover, Copy, and Compare Versus Taped Problems

    Brian C. Poncy;Christopher H. Skinner;Kathryn E. Jaspers

  • Cover, Copy, and Compare: A Self-Managed Academic Intervention Effective Across Skills, Students, and Settings

    Christopher H. Skinner;T. F. McLaughlin;Pat Logan

  • Enhancing academic engagement: Providing opportunities for responding and influencing students to choose to respond

    Christopher H. Skinner;Danielle N. Pappas;Kai A. Davis

  • An empirical analysis of interspersal research evidence, implications and applications of the discrete task completion hypothesis.

    Christopher H Skinner

  • Preventing Academic Skills Deficits

    Christopher H. Skinner

  • Interventions for Reading Problems: Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies

    Edward J Daly;Sabina Neugebauer;Sandra Chafouleas;Christopher H Skinner

  • Enhancing academic performance in a classroom serving students with serious emotional disturbance: interdependent group contingencies with randomly selected components

    Joan Popkin;Christopher H. Skinner

  • Independent and Interdependent Group Contingencies: Smoothing the Rough Waters

    Christopher H. Skinner;Craig S. Cashwell;Merrily S. Dunn

  • Increasing On-Task Behavior in an Elementary Student during Mathematics Seatwork by Interspersing Additional Brief Problems

    Merilee McCurdy;Christopher H. Skinner;Kay Grantham;T. Steuart Watson

  • Measuring and increasing silent reading comprehension rates: Empirically validating a repeated readings intervention

    Jennifer T. Freeland;Christopher H. Skinner;Bertha Jackson;C. Elizabeth McDaniel

  • Instructional Effectiveness and Instructional Efficiency as Considerations for Data-Based Decision Making: An Evaluation of Interspersing Procedures

    Gary L. Cates;Christopher H. Skinner;T. Steuart Watson;Tawnya J. Meadows

  • Increasing Tootling: The Effects of a Peer-Monitored Group Contingency Program on Students' Reports of Peers' Prosocial Behaviors.

    Christopher H. Skinner;Tammy H. Cashwell;Amy L. Skinner

  • Randomized interdependent group contingencies: Group reinforcement with a twist

    Kimberly Kelshaw-Levering;Heather E. Sterling-Turner;Jennifer R. Henry;Christopher H. Skinner

  • An Investigation of the Reliability and Standard Error of Measurement of Words Read Correctly Per Minute Using Curriculum-Based Measurement

    Brian C. Poncy;Christopher H. Skinner;Philip K. Axtell

  • A Comparison of Instructional Response Requirements on the Multiplication Performance of Behaviorally Disordered Students

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  • The 1-minute explicit timing intervention: The influence of mathematics problem difficulty.

    Katrina N. Rhymer;Christopher H. Skinner;Shantwania Jackson;Stephanie McNeill

  • The Taped-Problems Intervention: Increasing Multiplication Fact Fluency Using a Low-Tech, Classwide, Time-Delay Intervention

    Elizabeth McCallum;Christopher H. Skinner;Haley Turner;Lee Saecker

  • Applying Herrnstein's Matching Law to Influence Students' Choice to Complete Difficult Academic Tasks

    Christopher H. Skinner;Sheri L. Robinson;Gregg A. Johns;Patricia Logan

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. Cihak
David F. Cihak University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Frank M. Gresham
Frank M. Gresham Louisiana State University
Sandra M. Chafouleas
Sandra M. Chafouleas University of Connecticut
Randy G. Floyd
Randy G. Floyd University of Memphis

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