Table 4.

Conditional Discrimination training best practices and recommended protocols for emergent responding training systems with GOOGLE SLIDES^TM and GOOGLE FORMS^TM

Conditional Discrimination Best Practicesa	SlidesTM	FormsTM
Auditory stimulus used as sample	Yes	Yes
Counterbalanced presentation order and position of sample and comparison stimuli	Yes	Yes
Fast-paced trial presentation	Yes	Yes
At least three comparison stimuli in an array	Yes	Yes
Immediate trial-by-trial reinforcement/feedback during training	Yes	No
Trials prepared out of view of the learnerb	N/A	N/A
A different sample stimulus presented every trial	Yes	Yes
Observing response required	Yes	No
Basic learner and readiness skills taught prior to using MTSc	N/A	N/A
Errorless teaching or prompt-fading methods used	Yes	Yesd
Recommended Protocols for Emergent Responding Training Systemse
Three or more equivalence classes	Yes	Yes
Three or more members in an equivalence class	Yes	Yes
One-to-many training structure	Yes	Yes
Simple-to-complex training protocol	Yes	Yes
Selection-based responses taught	Yes	Yes
Topography-based responses taught	Nof	Yes
Test for emergent selection-based responses without feedback	Yes	Yes
Test for emergent topography-based responses without feedback	Nof	Yes
Training/testing mastery criteria to facilitate emergent responding	Yes	Yes

^aGreen (2001), Grow and LeBlanc (2013), and MacDonald and Langer (2018).

^bNot applicable for a computer-based system.

^cNot applicable for typically developing learners.

^dPrompting procedures can be implemented; however, they cannot be automated.

^eArntzen (2012); Brodsky and Fienup (2018); Critchfield and Twyman (2014); Fienup, Wright, and Fields (2018); Pilgrim (2020); Rehfeldt (2011); Reyes-Giordano and Fienup (2015); and Saunders and Green (1999).

^fTopography-based responses can be taught and tested; however, responses cannot be recorded by the system and must be directly observed by the trainer