The primary objective was to determine whether untrained undergraduate students could become effective as behavior modification consultants to teachers. Students from different undergraduate majors were given 10 weeks of guided experiences in interviewing and program designing. This was followed by field experiences involving actual consultation…

This report evaluates changes in teacher behavior resulting from a one-week orientation program. Teachers at School A attended an orientation program which stressed the problems of working with inner-city children and the resource personnel available to help them. Teachers from School B, a second inner-city school without an in-service program…

Fourth grade students (half of whom received reading instruction through the Language Experience Approach and the other half through the Basal Reader Approach since the first grade) were observed to determine the behavioral channeling of aggression when influenced by method of instruction. The methods were: (1) a Directed Reading-Thinking Activity…

This paper discusses the development, application, and implications of a statistical technique--a concordance index--for measuring the restrictions and constrictions (legal and societal) which inhibit individual decision making and adapting behavior. It was found that as sophistication sets in there will be less and less tolerance of these…

A study involving 7 multiply handicapped students (6-13 years old) was conducted to shape appropriate classroom social behaviors and to maintain them with little social approval, to examine what effects reprimands had on student behavior, and to see if combination of reprimands and praise could result in good classroom behavior when reprimands…

This essay discusses three problem areas in values clarification: (1) the definition of value, (2) the characterization of effective treatment, and (3) the moral point of view. (CD)

The writer used self-recording and charting of his own behavior as a way to observe and manage changes during his senior year at high school. (Author)

Questions the current emphasis on learning disabilities, which represents an ideology in which the language and, often, the techniques of medicine are used extensively to serve the purposes of social control. (Author/IRT)

This study investigated the process of fear change during a course of systematic desensitization therapy. Behavioral, subjective, and physiological measures of fear were taken following each of eight therapy sessions. Changes in one fear system did not appear to be primary in initiating changes in the other fear systems. (Author)

The ability of aversive conditioning and contingency management to control smoking was compared. Although contingency management was more effective in the short run, at a six-month follow-up treatment effects were no longer evident. (SE)

Nine learning disabled pupils (10-11 years old) who participated in open-ended class meetings demonstrated increased verbal participation, decreased hyperactivity and diminished social isolation from regular class children. (CL)

Videotaped feedback sessions led to a marked reduction in the headshaking behavior of a 19-year-old educable mentally retarded male. (CL)

Investigated the effect of a verbal response model of assertiveness with nonassertive college female nursing students. The model is composed of three verbal components presented in a systematic training program. Subjects (N=25) were randomly assigned to the assertive training group, the attention control group, and the no-treatment control group.…

This study evaluated the effects of covert positive reinforcement (CPR) on a nine-year old, third-grade student who was causing a classroom disturbance. There was an immediate improvement in three target behaviors following the implementation of CPR by the school psychologist. (Author)