Token economy used to increase performance in solving algebra problems for high school students

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of using a token economy approach to increase the performance in solving algebra homework quizzes for two high school boys. The program included tokens that could be redeemed for candy or extra credit points to encourage the students to try harder to check over their answers on homework quizzes before handing them in to be graded. Permanent product was used to record the scores of the homework quizzes and a comparison of baseline data and intervention data was done with a reversal design. The results showed that the students did not show improvement given the tokens as reinforcement for the correct number of problems on the homework quizzes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Special Education

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2002

Author dc:creator

• Maes, Kari Mankes

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rebecca Nathanson

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1377

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2376