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Elizabeth Garis – Communique, 2024
If students at your school are not attending classes or coming to school at all, they may be engaging in school refusal. Understanding what school refusal is, as well as the functions behind it, is key to evaluation and a collaborative school-home approach to intervention.
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Student Behavior, School Phobia
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John W. Maag; Edward J. Daly III – Beyond Behavior, 2024
Differential negative reinforcement of alternative behavior is a technique in which students can escape a portion of a task they perceive to be unpleasant by reaching a predetermined criterion. In this article, we define the negative reinforcement trap and review research on differential negative reinforcement of alternative behavior. We then…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Behavior, Productivity, Accuracy
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Boskovic, Irena – Educational Psychology, 2020
The educational system today often relies on incentives in order to motivate students. However, it might also encourage students to engage in deceptive behaviour (e.g. malingering) in order to reach certain benefits. Hereby, we investigated whether students would intentionally fabricate symptoms (i.e. malinger) when confronted with a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Behavior, Deception, Physical Health
Carson, Joan C.; Carson, Peter – 1984
Utilizing a behavioral approach to classroom management, this book provides effective methods for preventing and remediating student misbehaviors. These tested and proven management strategies are highlighted with actual case studies of behavior problems involving average and exceptional students from elementary and secondary settings. Teacher,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques