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Peer reviewedPelios, Lillian V.; MacDuff, Gregory S.; Axelrod, Saul – Education and Treatment of Children, 2003
This study evaluated a treatment package to improve on-task academic skills by three children with autism. Program components included delayed reinforcement for on-task and on-schedule responding, fading of instructional prompts and instructor's presence, unpredictable supervision, and response cost for off-task responding. On-task and on-schedule…
Descriptors: Autism, Basic Skills, Children, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHale, Sandra; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
In two experiments, children and adults were exposed to four different information-processing tasks to measure speed and variability of performance across different age groups. It was found that 10- and 11-year-olds were about 1.7 and 1.6 times slower than 19-year-olds, differences that were not affected by allowing both groups practice on the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedWitt, Joseph C.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Journal of School Psychology, 1982
Evaluated the effect of a response cost lottery procedure on the percentage of on-task behavior and accuracy of academic work of three fourth-grade students. Although contingencies were attached primarily to behavior, both on-task behavior and academic performance measures increased in treatment conditions. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Children
Peer reviewedSergeant, Joseph A.; Scholten, C. A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Three groups of elementary school children, rated on activity and distractibility, were given a visual search task with three levels of display load and tested twice in two conditions of stimulus visibility. Encoding deficit or data limitation did not account for the attentional performance of either hyperactive or somewhat hyperactive subjects.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo
