The purpose of the study was to explore the effect on parents and children of training parents in the use of the precision teaching approach to behavior modification in an effort to increase their ability to manage retarded children at home. During a 10-week training period, parents learned the modification procedure evolved by Ogden Lindsley and…

This discussion emphasizes the need for a new perspective from which to understand the dynamic interchanges between the persons involved in the educational experience. Both teacher and student are urged to work together, simultaneously confronting not only the problems of their field of study but the wider human concerns of contemporary life as…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a positively-oriented instructional program in developing a positive attitude toward environmental problems in selected preservice elementary teachers. In order to more accurately discern factors involved in attitude change the number of subjects was limited to three and a descriptive…

Discussed briefly are techniques of behavior change used in behavioral programing for emotionally disturbed elementary school children with behavior problems. The author considers the child's ecology as a significant influence on the child's behavior, by which he means all the experiences and relationships that a child encounters in his…

Devoted to the affective dimensions of learning to read, this study examined (1) the relationship between reading self-concept at the beginning of first grade and measured reading achievement at the middle of first grade, and (2) the relationships between change in first grade reading self-concept and patterns of observed successes in reading. In…

Data were collected on rate-per-minute of administering token reinforcement for one male and seven female teachers enrolled in a behavior modification seminar. The study was conducted in four self-contained and four open classrooms. In the observer-present condition, data were obtained during 15-minute classroom observation periods. In the…

Three separate, sequential three-month studies were made to determine the effects of timed pupil feedback on teaching behavior. Audiotapes were made of the teaching behaviors of eighteen teachers before, during, and after the teachers introduced a feedback instrument to their pupils. The tapes were analyzed for changes in teacher behavior over the…

This experiment was an attempt to replicate a sound discrimination training procedure reported by Elkonin (1963). Eight kindergarten subjects were given a training list composed of five words made up of nine sounds. Experimental subjects learned to discriminate the sounds making up the words with aid of pictures representing the words as well as…

The purposes of the project were to demonstrate the use of desensitization therapy over a short term to treat test-taking anxiety, and to test the hypothesis that such short-term treatment is effective in dealing with anxiety in mathematics courses and thus enhances and facilitates learning in these courses. The research was designed to utilize…

Described is a program to provide educational services for severely emotionally disturbed (autistic or childhood schizophrenic) children based on behavior modification principles. Both formal and informal tests of performance are given in the areas of preacademic and readiness tasks. Each child is individually tutored in language, pre-reading,…

The mother of a 3-year-old girl who showed "autistic-like" behavior was cued via a FM wireless microphone to systematically approve and disapprove of her child's behavior. After baselines were taken on two categories of problem behavior (Pre-Academic and Social Behavior) the social contingencies were applied successively to each category. The…

Whether or not an innovation in education is accepted is often dependent upon its direct affect on the stability of the adopter. A framework of organizational theory provides structure and meaning for a study on differing positive/negative responses of distinct groupings of educators toward the adoption of innovative practices. Educational change…

An attempt is made to determine whether a behaviorally-oriented conditioning approach, "covert sensitization," is more effective in the treatment of alcoholism than the commonly used problem-solving approach, and whether female counselors employing covert sensitization were more successful than males. Thirty-two subjects selected on…

Designed for teachers, administrators, and other specialized educational personnel, this professional paper describes new insights involving the problem of putting health knowledge into action. It explores reasons for the discrepancy between knowledge and behavior and suggests the asking of two questions: (1) What basic problem is the individual…

The purpose of this follow-up study was to determine whether changes in teacher high-level questioning behavior and classroom interaction patterns (rates of pupil and teacher talk) which resulted from the use of operant methodology in a microteaching setting were maintained during the student teaching experience a year later. Twenty University of…