What does DTT stand for?

• A. Discrete Trial Teaching Procedures
• B. Mixed Trials
• C. Natural Environment Teaching
• D. Incidental Teaching

Answer: (A)

Discrete Trial Teaching stands for a highly structured ABA teaching method where every learning opportunity is a discrete trial: a clear cue is presented, the learner responds (often with prompting), and a specified consequence follows, usually reinforcement or corrective feedback. Trials are brief, run in small, teachable steps, and data are collected to track progress and guide prompting and mastery criteria. This organized format makes skills easier to teach and measure, and it’s distinct from more naturalistic approaches like natural environment teaching or incidental teaching, which occur in everyday settings and rely less on a fixed sequence of trials. The term “Mixed Trials” isn’t a standard framework for naming a teaching approach, so it doesn’t align with the same structured, repeatable method as Discrete Trial Teaching.