Some Collateral Effects of Four Academic Reinforcement Regimes

A multielement baseline, or alternating treatments design, was used to examine social collateral effects of non-contingent reinforcement, individualized reinforcement, group consequation and competitive reinforcement for academic performance. Four elementary school students selected by their teachers for vocabulary deficiencies completed the study. The findings provide strong evidence supporting the conclusion that while incentive systems raise quiz scores and some appropriate task related behaviors, they also increase socially undesirable cheating. Furthermore, cheating controls did not adequately suppress cheating, suggesting the need to provide systematic, effective study skills training to students, rather than allow them to learn adventitious, sophisticated methods of cheating.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Amado, Richard Steven

• Education, Educational Psychology

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8209540

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77319