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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Group Contingency"”.
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THE CLASSROOM PASSWORD GROUP CONTINGENCY WITH RANDOMIZED REINFORCERS
… behavior modification methods explored. Group contingencies are one of these behavior modification procedures that can be applied at a class-wide level by teachers who are seeking to improve student behavior as a group or individually. The three types of group contingencies are …
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Mystery Motivator Calendar: An Interdependent Group Contingency, Variable Ratio, Classroom Intervention
… Mystery Motivator Calendar, an interdependent group contingency, variable-ratio, classwide intervention as a tool for reducing disruptive classroom behavior in eight diverse, general-education elementary school classrooms across seven different schools. The study employed a single-case, ABAB …
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Evaluating the Independent Group Contingency: “Mystery Student” on Improving Behaviors in Head Start Classrooms
… current study investigated the effects of the group contingency, “Mystery Student,” on improving preschool classroom behaviors. The Mystery Student intervention is a novel, independent group contingency, with an added randomized component. An ABAB reversal design was employed to determine how …
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Effects of Synchronous Reinforcement within a Group Contingency for Increasing Toy Cleanup in Preschoolers
… for a teacher with 15 children in a classroom). Group contingencies are often used in classroom management systems (Groves & Austin, 2017; Maggin et al., 2012) and are advantageous as they are relatively easy for teachers to implement (Hine et al., 2015). In the current evaluation, we extended …
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The Classroom Password: An Independent Group Contingency Targeting Academic Engagement and Disruptive Behaviors In High School Classrooms
… classroom password, an independent class-wide group contingency, was implemented in a high school setting in effort to determine its effects on academically engaged behaviors, disruptive behaviors and passively off-task behaviors. This was done using a reversal design across three classes. The …
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Is the Written Component of Tootling Effective? A Comparison of the Group Contingency to a Comparison Writing Procedure
<p>Previous tootling literature has demonstrated positive effects of the intervention when implemented in settings from elementary school (e.g., Skinner, Cashwell, & Skinner, 2000) to high school (e.g., Lum et al., 2019). Several studies have shown meaningful effects for the tootling intervention …
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Social Sprouts: A Play-Based Packaged Intervention - Improving Peer Interactions in Early Childhood Classrooms with a Novel Group Contingency
… this combination of needs effectively is a group contingency. The current study investigated the effect of a novel group contingency, Social Sprouts, on both positive peer interactions and disruptive behavior. This study utilized a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design in three Head Start …
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A Function-Based Approach to Establishing Social Skills: The Effect of an Interdependent Group Contingency on Preference for Social or Non-Social Reinforcers
… that are crucial to children's development. Group-oriented contingency research has proved to be a fruitful avenue in terms of producing technologies that promote social interactions between peers and reduce maladaptive behavior. Specifically, interdependent group contingencies have been …
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Therapy development of group contingency management in methadone treatment: Pilot 1 - the application of a percentile schedule to enhance attendance behaviors and cocaine abstinence
… and abstinence reinforcement program to the group therapy modality typically found in community substance abuse treatment, this study applied a contingency management (CM) procedure to behavior outcomes of the group as a whole. An algorithmic shaping percentile schedule was used to establish …
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Group Matching and Group Contingencies
… (Kraft & Baum, 2001) will engage in emergent group behavior that is distinct from individual matching relations. To more completely understand group matching in humans, group relations beyond foraging must be investigated. This study expands on the findings of Kraft and Baum (2001) and …
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Reducing Disruptive Behavior in High School: The Good Behavior Game
… classroom management techniques and abilities. Group contingency interventions, such as the Good Behavior Game (GBG), are often used to provide teachers with evidence based management strategies while improving student behavior in the class. Furthermore, group contingency interventions, such as …
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Using Behavior BINGO to Increase Academically Engaged Behavior in a General Education Elementary School Population
… of many teachers. The literature suggests that group contingencies are beneficial for improving behavior on a classwide and individual level. The current study investigated Behavior BINGO, a group contingency intervention whose research is in its infancy, and its effectiveness on increasing …
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The Quiet Cafeteria Game
… effects of a decibel-level based interdependent group contingency, the Quiet Cafeteria Game (QCaG), on noise levels, appropriate lunchroom behavior, and disruptive lunchroom behavior. Results of the current study indicated that the QCaG effectively reduced noise levels in an elementary school …
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Investigating the Use of a Positive Variation of the Good Behavior Game in a High School Setting
… Game (GBG) is an example of an interdependent group contingency that can be used in classrooms to manage behavior. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a positive variation of the GBG in which teachers attend to rule-following behavior, as opposed to the original …
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The Effects of Tootling on Disruptive and Academic Behaviors in High School
… them into a marked container. An interdependent group contingency procedure was used to create a class goal for the number of submitted tootles, which led to a class reward when achieved. The teacher recorded the number of tootles submitted on a publicly posted progress chart, and verbally …
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The Quiet Classroom Game with an Indiscriminable Contingency in a High School
… Quiet Classroom Game (QCG) is an interdependent group contingency utilized to decrease classroom noise levels, increase student engagement, and decrease disruptive behaviors in the classroom setting. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of the QCG in three high school …
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The Effects of the Tootling Intervention Using Daily Reinforcement
… elementary schools. An interdependent group contingency and publicly posted feedback were used to encourage the production of Tootles during the study. An ABAB withdrawal design was used in three classrooms, with a multiple baseline element across two classrooms, to determine the …
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The Effects of the Good Behavior Game With General Education High School Students
… evaluate the effectiveness of the interdependent group contingency procedure known as the Good Behavior Game (GBG) on decreasing disruptive behaviors in general education high school students. The effectiveness of the GBG has been investigated in many studies as means of managing a variety of …
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Evaluating the Effects of an Independent versus Interdependent Reinforcement Contingency on Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise
… of both an independent and interdependent paired contingency to increase frequency of behavior specific praise delivery. Four general education elementary school teachers and their students participated. Teachers’ use of behavior specific and general praise, as well as, behavior specific and …
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A Comparison of Hero-Identified and Hero-Unidentified Dependent Group Contingencies to Increase Children’s Physical Activity During Recess
… Previous research has shown that dependent group contingencies (DGC) can increase children’s physical activity at school. Within DGCs, one target student (the “hero”) is selected in advance, and the class earns a reward only if the hero meets a predetermined goal. Variations in how the hero …
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