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Conradi, Lyndsey Aiono; Jameson, J. Matt; Fischer, Aaron J.; Farrell, Michael; Eichelberger, Carrie; Ryan, Joanna; Bowman, Jessica A.; McDonnell, John – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Numerous studies have demonstrated the positive effects of the Good Behavior Game (GBG); however, limited information exists on the impact of the GBG on students with severe disabilities. This study investigated the impact of the GBG on students with severe disabilities and their off-task behaviors. Three students in three self-contained…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Time on Task, Student Behavior, Self Contained Classrooms
Chelsea Nicole Gyke – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Classroom management, although considered one of the essentials of the optimal learning experience, is often a challenge for teachers. Certain classroom management strategies, such as group contingency interventions and token economies, are evidence-based strategies to aid teachers in gaining successful management of the classroom. The utilization…
Descriptors: Tablet Computers, Classroom Techniques, Web Sites, Educational Technology
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Boyce, B. Ann; Walker, Pam – Strategies, 1991
An academician and a physical education teacher present a guide for controlling elementary students. They identify the need for established structure in the gymnasium and offer exercises to achieve it, noting the key is planning and practicing of rules, behaviors, and procedures with active monitoring and early teacher intervention. (SM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Physical Education
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Broughton, Sam F.; Lahey, Benjamin B. – Journal of School Psychology, 1978
The relative effects of positive reinforcement, response cost, and the two contingencies combined when used as contingencies for correct academic responses were compared on the dependent measures of accuracy of academic performance and level of on-task behavior. All three contingency systems increased academic performance and on-task behavior.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Observation
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Atherley, Carole – School Organisation, 1990
Positive behavior management has been recommended as a more acceptable form of classroom management than traditional behavioral modification. This paper discusses the application of stimulus and contingency control methods (positive behavior management) to elicit more socially and academically acceptable behavior from elementary school children.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Discipline
Davey, Bryan; Alexander, Melina; Edmonson, Claudia; Stenhoff, Donald; West, Richard P. – 2001
A study examined the effects of using a musical clocklight as discriminative stimulus, paired with individual and group contingency rewards, on the decibel level in an elementary school lunchroom. Subjects were 256 students aged 5-12, who ate lunch in two sessions for younger and older students. The musical clocklight (MCL) apparatus consisted of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Dining Facilities, Elementary Education
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Pigott, H. Edmund; Heggie, Deborah L. – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1986
Review of 20 studies comparing relative efficacy of individual and group contingencies found the former to be generally superior when academic performance was the targeted behavior. In contrast, no consistent differential effect was found when students' social response was the targeted behavior, yet increased verbal threats were reported during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management
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Broughton, Sam F. – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1983
Reports on a study which attempted to determine whether an academic contingency system that successfully modified academic performance and on-task behavior of selected target children would also lead to vicarious academic or behavioral effects in non-target children. Results show that it did not. (CMG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management
Hett, Geoffrey G. – 1986
This report summarizes the outcome of two behavior management programs provided to undergraduate student teachers at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Eighteen student teachers were taught to use behavior management strategies to improve the attending behavior of elementary school pupils. Each student teacher was randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Elementary Education
Darst, Paul W. – 1979
Contingency management is a system focused on managing the motivation of students, and can be developed and utilized in any type of physical education environment from elementary to college levels. An analysis of two existing contingency management learning systems (one for a fifth-grade gymnastics unit and the other for a seventh- and eigth-grade…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Gymnastics
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Ninness, H. A. Chris; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1985
Elementary school children displaying high rates of classroom disruption--"acting-out"--were given the Bender Gestalt pre- and posttreatments. Treatments consisted of contingency management, while a control group received an eclectic procedure. All experimental students and half of the control group showed significant drops in rates of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Discipline Problems, Educational Strategies
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Van Acker, Richard; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1996
Direct observation of 206 elementary students above the median on risk for aggression found that the interaction of students and teachers differed significantly based on the student's level of aggression risk. Both base rates for specific student and teacher behaviors as well as classroom contingencies differed significantly depending on the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Classroom Environment, Contingency Management, Elementary Education
Metzger, Mary Ann; Freund, Lisa – 1986
The major purpose of this study was to describe the rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior of learning-disabled, hyperactive, and nonselected elementary school children working on a computer-managed task. Hypotheses tested were (1) that the children would differ in the degree to which either instructions or external contingencies controlled…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Pace, Denise M.; Forman, Susan G. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Exposed students in four second-grade classes exhibiting disruptive behavior to response cost programs with varying initial reinforcement and fine levels. Results indicated all treatments were highly effective, as all groups underwent maximum behavioral change. Suggests degree of aversiveness of procedure did not appear to be strongly related to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Metcalf, Faith; Feldman, David – 1982
Joint teacher and student development of a contingency management plan to help control disruptive behavior was explored with a class of 13 mildly mentally retarded elementary school children after several less extensive teacher directed contingencies were unsuccessful. All students in the self contained classroom had extensive school histories of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Elementary Education
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