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Shores, Richard E.; And Others – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1993
The unintentional and unrecognized use of aversive stimuli that increase student escape and avoidance responses may contribute to educational problems of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Sources of aversive stimuli present in many classrooms include interactions between students and teachers, academic activities offered, and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Skinner, Christopher H.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1991
This study compared the effects of two cover, copy, and compare interventions on the written multiplication performance of two elementary school students with behavioral disorders. The verbal response condition resulted in greater increases in written multiplication performance and occasioned more than twice the number of opportunities to respond…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
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Horner, Robert H.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
Two studies of three youths (ages 12-14) with severe mental retardation, who used aggression and self-injury to avoid difficult instructional situations, found that simple commands interspersed among more challenging instructional trials were effective at increasing the learners' responsiveness to instructions and decreasing levels of problem…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Difficulty Level