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Using a Random Dependent Group Contingency to Increase On-Task Behaviors of High School Students with High Incidence Disabilities
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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
Special Education Programs in District 27: Teacher Activity, Student Activity, Student Time on Task, and Program Structure.
Walter, Gail A. – 1983
The report summarizes a year long observational study of special education programs in one district's 12 elementary schools (Queens, New York). Data were gathered using observational time samples of teacher, student, and paraprofessional activity and student time on task; descriptive notes of the classroom context; ratings of 15 dimensions of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Students' Time on Learning Tasks in Special Education.
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Rich, H. Lyndall; Ross, Steven M. – Exceptional Children, 1989
Naturalistic observation procedures examined the use of time by 230 elementary students with disabilities in four special education placements--regular class, resource room, special class, and special school. The least restrictive alternatives, particularly the resource room, made more in-class learning time available. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Mainstreaming