Ph.D. University of Florida 1971 Educational Psychology
M.Ed. University of Florida 1969 Educational Psychology
B.Ed. University of Florida 1966 Secondary English

Teaching

Before becoming a university professor, I was an 8th grade teacher in Florida. After graduate school, I taught at Georgia State University for 29 years, the last 10 as dean. Now as dean at TCU, I only teach every other year or so offering a seminar on educational issues relevant to the study of behaviorism and B. F. Skinner.

Research

My research has varied over the years and has been on such issues as discipline in schools, philosophy and language, the meaning of applied science, and human learning. Among my favorite publications are:

Deitz, S. M., & Hummel, J. H. (1978). Discipline in the Schools: A Guide to Reducing Misbehavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Fredrick, L. D., Deitz, S. M., Bryceland, J., & Hummel, J. H. (2000). Behavior Analysis, Education, and Effective Schooling. Reno, NV: Context Press.

Deitz, S. M. (1977). An analysis of programming DRL schedules in educational settings. Behavior Research and Therapy, 15, 103-112.

Deitz, S. M. (1978). Current status of applied behavior analysis: Science versus technology. American Psychologist, 33, 804-814.

Deitz, S. M., & Arrington, R. L. (1983). Factors confusing language use in the analysis of behavior. Behaviorism, 11, 117-132.

Deitz, S. M. (1984). Real people, ordinary language, and natural measurement. Commentary to B. F. Skinner, Methods and theories in the experimental analysis of behavior. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 524-525. Reprinted in A. C. Catania and S. Harnad (Eds.). (1988). The Selection of Behavior. The Operant Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner: Comments and Consequences. (pp. 105-107). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Deitz, S. M., & Arrington, R. L. (1984). Wittgenstein's language-games and the call to cognition. Behaviorism, 12, 1-14.

Deitz, S. M. (1986). Understanding cognitive language: The mental idioms in children's talk. The Behavior Analyst, 9, 161-166.

Deitz, S. M., Gaydos, G. R., Lawrence, A. D., Quinn, P. C., Brasher, L. D., & Fredrick, L. D. (1987). Feedback effects on sequential ordering in humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 48, 209-220.

Deitz, S. M. (February, 2000). Building a collaborative community: Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences. Presented at the meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Chicago.

Deitz, S. M. (May, 2001). Visions, missions, content, and language: Can behavior analysis fit into a teacher preparation program? Presented at the meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis. New Orleans.

I served as Editor of The Behavior Analyst from 1990-1991 (Volumes 13 and 14) and was on the Boards of Editors for The Behavior Analyst, l980-l982; 1986-1988; Behavior Modification, 1984-1988; Behaviorism, 1984-1990; Behavior Analysis, 1988-1989; and Behavior and Philosophy, 1990-1992. I wrote a standing column for the APA Division 25 Recorder, Volume 21 (1, 2, & 3), and was an Executive Council Member for the Association for Behavior Analysis.

Personal

My wife, Tricia, and I have three children - Joshua, Celia, and Jacob.