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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"group contingencies"”.
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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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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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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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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 the good behavior game on physical activity
… to develop interventions that assess the use of group contingencies in an effort to increase physical activity during recess time. The purpose of the current study was to implement the Step it UP! game (a modified version of the good behavior game) in three different classrooms during their …
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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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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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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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An examination of the Good Behavior Game and behavior specific praise statements on student and teacher behavior
This study directly compares two interdependent group oriented contingency strategies, the GBG and the GBG with a behavior specific praise statement (BSPS) component (i.e., GBG+BSPS) to examine the relative effectiveness of each as a tool for class-wide behavior management, to inspect the effect on …
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Classroom Implementation of Cooperative Learning: Qualitative Case Studies of Three Early Elementary Teachers
… teachers were selected for study from a group of 35 educators taking four days of training in cooperative learning. Case studies of these three teachers were based on data gathered over eight months through participant observation and ethnographic interviews.</p> <p>The case studies begin …
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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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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 …