A modification of the FitzGerald Method of using heterogeneous groups to facilitate academic achievement in the classroom was tested using 8th grade mathematics classes. (NQ)

This paper presents six irrational attitudes teachers might hold that could interfere with their successfully learning and implementing behavior modification programs (Author)

In contrast to the traditional view that maladaptive behaviors are surface manifestations of underlying emotional disturbances, the behavior modification approach assumes that such behaviors are simply learned ways of adjusting to the environment and are determined by the consequences that follow them. (Author)

The school is a behavior setting which acts on students and teachers and which produces predictable patterns of behavior. Architects should therefore design schools at the scale of the behavior setting. (Author/LLR)

The article demonstrates practical and theoretical support of author's circular model of behavior. This model implies that if you change behavior you will change opinion. It directly relates to teaching children in the classroom through actual experience, as opposed to lectures. (Author/RR)

Incentive and behavior were investigated in the study focusing upon a comparison of the effects of response cost (for errors) and response reward (for correct responses) on verbal performance of mentally retarded subjects. (KW)