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Through the application of behavioral principles, behavior analysts seek to produce socially meaningful behavior change, defined as alterations in behavior that yield important outcomes immediately beneficial for the direct consumers of interventions and key stakeholders. Behavioral practitioners and researchers often engage in assessment and reporting of the meaningfulness of behavior change using social validity assessments. These assessments ensure that target behaviors are appropriately selected, intervention procedures are acceptable, and satisfactory outcomes are produced. The purpose of this review is to identify the current state of social validity within behavioral literature. We reviewed eight peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2020. We found that 47% of the intervention studies reviewed included a social validity assessment. Social validity assessment across journals has increased over time, with a significant rise from 2019 to 2020. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future work are discussed.
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The training and supervision of adults are often an important part of a behavior analyst's responsibilities when providing services to individuals with disabilities. Coaching with immediate performance feedback can be one of the most effective tools in a behavior analyst's tool kit when providing effective training and supervision, but the need to be in the same physical space as the adult being coached can make this evidence-based practice logistically challenging. Distance bug-in-ear (D-BIE) coaching, where the coach delivers immediate feedback to a coachee from a remote location through a wireless earpiece as the coachee works with a client, can surmount these difficulties and allow a behavior analyst to efficiently deliver in-the-moment coaching to adults in any number of remote locations. This article provides a practical "how-to" guide to the equipment and procedures of D-BIE coaching. It is intended to assist behavior analysts who may benefit from this coaching method but need support in getting started with this new technology.