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Download full textGrünke, Matthias – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple contingency contracting intervention on the correct use of punctuation marks in freely produced texts by elementary school children with learning disabilities. This approach can be considered a promising strategy for facilitating the development of academic skills in…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Direct linkLovitt, Thomas C. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
There are many instructional approaches that had been arranged in special education, especially with learning disabilities. Although the field of learning disabilities has been a safe harbor for dozens of techniques, a number of others had been beached. It is regrettable that data rarely played a role in whether a technique was dispatched or…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Contingency Management, Special Education, Teaching Methods
Cihak, David F.; Kirk, Emily R.; Boon, Richard T. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a classwide positive peer reporting intervention known as "tootling" in conjunction with a group contingency procedure to reduce the number of disruptive behaviors in a third-grade inclusive classroom. Nineteen elementary students including four students with disabilities (i.e., specific learning…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Jones, Melissa; Boon, Richard T.; Fore, Cecil, III; Bender, William N. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
A reversal (ABAB) design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a group contingency intervention on the verbally disrespectful behaviors of seven middle school students with specific learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders (ADHD) in a special education resource classroom setting for reading instruction. During the intervention…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Contingency Management, Antisocial Behavior
Peer reviewedKleinhammer-Tramill, P. Jeannie; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
Twenty-four learning disabled students (10 to 14 years old) assigned to three reward schedules (response contingent reward, 100 percent noncontingent reward, and 50 percent random noncontingent reward) were asked to replicate block designs and solve coding problems. No differences were found in errors, but Ss in noncontingent conditions…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSwanson, Lee – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
Three experiments investigated the effects of self recording, tokens and contingent free time on learning disabled children's reading comprehension performance. Results of these three experiments supported recent findings that only minimal changes occur on comprehension performance when left as an untargeted dependent behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Terrell, Catherine – 1983
The effects of a systematic study period, peer tutoring, and contractual consequences on the spelling performance of six junior high learning disabled students were investigated. Ss were scoring poorly or inconsistently on unit spelling tests. An intervention period of 2 to 4 weeks consisted of daily exposure to words through a peer tutor and…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching
Terry, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
The study implemented simple classroom procedures to increase the ontask behavior of eight second and third grade learning disabled students in an inner city school. Procedures used were modification of the environmental arrangement of the classroom (such as moving the learning centers closer to students' desks), changing the method of curriculum…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Environment, Contingency Management, Curriculum
Schilling, Don; Cuvo, Anthony J. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1983
A contingency based lottery system was implemented to improve the classroom behavior of 18 learning disabled and educable mentally handicapped students, 13 to 16 years old. The lottery led to greater preparation for class and fewer incidents of talking without permission per student. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation
DeVries, Monty; Feldman, David – 1983
Two intermediate elementary grade level learning disabled students deficient in reading skills participated in a study to explore the efficacy of utilizing a token reinforcement program combined with behavioral contracting to increase the acquisition rate of sight vocabulary. Word recognition behavioral data were collected by measuring the time…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Sight Vocabulary
Fitzpatrick, Robert G. – Pointer, 1979
A six-week contingency management program to improve classroom behavior of learning disabled high school students climaxed in a two-day camping field trip. (A detailed trip log is included.) (PHR)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Camping, Contingency Management, High Schools
Peer reviewedGlazzard, Margaret; Goetz, Janice L. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Operant Conditioning
Lazar, Alfred L.; Lazar, Patricia E. – Pointer, 1976
A reading club, developed for a group of children attending a reading resource room, served as positive social reinforcement for members and permitted students to serve as teacher surrogates. (GW)
Descriptors: Clubs, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Reading
Peer reviewedWinefield, Helen – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Twenty-four children (8- to 10-years-old) received 20 individual remedial reading lessons each. (Author)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedSalend, Spencer J.; Lamb, Elizabeth Allen – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1986
An interdependent group-managed response-cost system mediated by free tokens was employed to decrease inappropriate verbalizations of two groups of elementary-level learning disabled children (N=9). Results indicated that this contingency system was a viable and effective method of decreasing inappropriate behavior. Peer pressure was credited for…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Cooperation
