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Pelios, 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
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Moore, Dennis W.; Prebble, Sherrell; Robertson, Jenny; Waetford, Rona; Anderson, Angelika – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 2001
Presents a study focusing on the effect of a self-management intervention. Included self-recording and goal setting for the behavior of eight-year-old boys attending a large suburban primary school. Suggests that the intervention was socially valid and cost effective. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Mithaug, Deirdre K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002
This study found six students (ages 5-7) with multiple disabilities correctly used a choice card to set goals, assign worksheets, complete work, and evaluate results more frequently during independent work sessions that followed a student choice condition than in independent work sessions that followed a teacher choice condition. (Contains 8…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Goal Orientation, Independent Study, Multiple Disabilities
Bettenhausen, Sherrie – 1989
This study compared self-recording and self-recording plus self-reinforcmeent treatments with no self-recording treatment on the spelling achievement and on-task behavior of 38 children (ages 10 to 13) with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. In the self-recording groups, subjects corrected, recorded, and graphed their daily spelling tests.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances