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Beaulieu, Lauren; Hanley, Gregory P.; Roberson, Aleasha A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We used a multiple baseline design across participants to evaluate the effects of teaching 4 typically developing preschoolers to attend to their names and to a group call (referred to as "precursors") on their compliance with typical classroom instructions. We then measured the extent to which the effects on both precursors and…
Descriptors: Peer Mediation, Preschool Children, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
Heal, Nicole A.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
Preschool teachers rely on several strategies for motivating children to participate in learning activities. In the current study, we evaluated the effectiveness of and preference for three teaching contexts in which embedded, sequential, or no programmed reinforcement was arranged. The embedded context included highly preferred teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Context Effect
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Rolider, Ahmos; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
Two persons (ages 15-24) with developmental handicaps were taught by 2 therapists under varying punishment conditions. Results indicated that the task being taught was mastered by each subject only when the therapist delivering punishment was teaching and that each subject made more eye-to-face contact when the therapist delivering punishment was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Developmental Disabilities, Eye Contact
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McComas, Jennifer; Hoch, Hannah; Paone, Debra; El-Roy, Daphna – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2000
A study involving four boys (ages 8-9) with developmental disabilities and autism found that a four-step procedure (functional analysis, descriptive assessment, establishing operations analysis, and follow-up evaluation), was effective in identifying methods of instruction that decreased the likelihood of destructive behaviors without disrupting…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
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Kohler, Frank W.; Greenwood, Charles R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1990
A classwide peer tutoring procedure was implemented in an urban elementary school classroom of 23 students, to improve students' spelling performance. Results indicated the untrained or collateral tutoring behaviors increased the academic response frequencies of three tutees and the weekly spelling achievement of one target tutee. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Problems
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Fantuzzo, John; Atkins, Marc – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This paper examines aspects of the traditional implementation of behavior analysis that are counterproductive to teacher use and identifies practices that promote greater teacher use, including entering the system and working with school personnel, developing classroomwide applications rather than single-student interventions, and sustaining…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Techniques