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Cost-benefit analysis

Also called cost-benefit

Comparing the resources a procedure requires (time, staff, materials, effort) with the outcomes it produces.

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Two methods teach sight words equally well, but one needs half the staff time.

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BCBA C.7 · Measurement, Data Display, and InterpretationMeasuring efficiency: trials to criterion, cost-benefit, and training time

Efficiency (of instruction)
Learning to learn
Mastery criterion
Time to criterion
Trials to criterion
Correlation

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