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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
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Friedman, Douglas L; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1988
Investigated attention-to-task and its relation to instructional context among 24 mainstreamed children with learning disabilities. Observation of students in regular class and resource room revealed significant differences in rate of engagement for classroom setting, type of instruction, and level of peer involvement, indicating that degree of…
Descriptors: Attention, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1987
Observations were conducted to document the active academic responding and academic engagement rates of 122 elementary students (30 learning-disabled, 32 emotionally/behaviorally disturbed, 30 mildly mentally retarded, and 30 self-contained programs. Data were recorded in 10-second intervals for each student over an entire school day. During a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances