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Learned Helplessness in Learning Disabled Adolescents as a Function of Noncontingent Rewards.
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Kleinhammer-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
Camping with L.D. High School Students.
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
A Surprise Message from a Balloon Motivates Learning
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Glazzard, Margaret; Goetz, Janice L. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Operant Conditioning
A Reading Club Serves as a Reinforcer
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
Remedial Reading: Effects of Tokens, Material Back-Up Reinforcers, and Response Cost
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Winefield, 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
Learning Disability as Related to Infrequent Punishment and Limited Participation in Delay of Reinforcement Tasks
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Wilson, L. R. – Journal of School Psychology, 1975
This study, by comparing for learning disabled and control children parental frequency rating of physical punishment and of completion of tasks, hypothesized that parental indulgence is associated with learning disorders. Referral children with learning problems (N=18), were rated significantly lower on both measures that students referred for…
Descriptors: Children, Contingency Management, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Effect of a Combined Celeration - Error Analysis: Procedure on Oral Reading Performance.
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Gable, Robert A.; And Others – 1977
The effectiveness of a procedure for systematically analyzing and intervening with oral reading was investigated with three learning disabled children (10 to 11 years old). Correct and error responses in oral reading were recorded during baseline and experimental conditions (which included contingent teacher praise and antecedent modeling on words…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
The Effects of Self- and Externally-Imposed Schedules of Reinforcement on Oral Reading Performance
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Billingsley, Felix F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
The effect of self-imposed and externally-imposed scheduling on oral reading rate was examined in eight reading delayed students (9 to 12 years old). (SBH)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Using Group Contingencies with Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Smith, Maureen A.; Misra, Anjali – LD Forum, 1994
This article discusses using a group contingency as a technique to increase appropriate behavior and decrease inappropriate behavior of students with learning disabilities who are either in regular classrooms or special classes. The advantages and disadvantages of three types of group contingencies (dependent group contingency, independent group…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management
Reading Instruction: Remedial and Compensatory: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," March through June 1977 (Vol. 37 Nos. 9 through 12).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effects of a federal compensatory reading program on academic achievement; variables affecting the reading growth rate of learning disabled children;…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Compensatory Education, Contingency Management