ITEM DESIRABILITY BIAS AND THE BAT CHECKLIST - REPLY

In response to Waltman and Burleson's indictment that the Kearney et a l. Behavior Alteration Technique checklist suffers from an item desira bility bias, we submit two major arguments which undermine altogether their claim. We illustrate that their entire allegation rests on first , a faulty premise (i.e., a distortion of the literature documenting w hat teachers actually do in the classroom) and second, on an indefensi ble research design which fails to test their contention.