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Graham-Day, Kristall J.; Gardner, Ralph, III.; Hsin, Yi-Wei – Education and Treatment of Children, 2010
This study used audiotaped chimes and a student checklist to improve the on-task behavior of three 10th-grade students with ADHD. The study took place in a high school study hall specifically for students with disabilities. The observers used a 10-second whole interval recording system to record on-task/off-task behavior within an alternating…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Time on Task, Student Behavior, High School Students
Watrous, Lorena Harper – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this mixed-methods explanatory case study was to determine the impact of a reduced school calendar on student achievement for students in grades 9 through 12 in two rural school districts in Virginia and to explore meanings associated with this change. The study focused on two research questions: how does student performance during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Schedules, Time on Task, Program Effectiveness
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Williamson, Brenda D.; Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.; Lo, Ya-yu – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
Group contingencies have the advantages of encouraging individual students to collectively feel responsible for appropriate and inappropriate classroom behaviors and have shown effectiveness in improving students' behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a random dependent group contingency on the on-task behaviors of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Behavior, Disabilities, Contingency Management