The Effects of Tootling Combined with Public Posting in High School Classrooms

<p>A traditional tootling procedure was implemented along with a public posting component to determine the effects on academically engaged, disruptive, and passive off task behaviors in four general education high school classrooms. The study employed an A/B/B+C multiple baseline design across classrooms. The primary focus of the study was to assess potential increases in academically engaged behavior across intervention conditions. Students in the traditional tootling phase (B) were instructed to report on their peers’ positive, prosocial behaviors. At the end of the class period, the teacher silently read through the tootles and added the total toward the group goal. When the class achieved their goal, they were rewarded with a predetermined item and the goal was reset. During the B+C phase, which incorporated traditional tootling in conjunction with public posting, the teacher or primary researcher posted the tootles that were received on a designated bulletin board for the students to see who received tootles. The results indicated that increases in academically engaged behaviors were maintained in both B and B+C phases, whereas disruptive and passive off task behaviors decreased. The differences between phase B and B+C were minimal, if any, suggesting that traditional tootling alone is effective. Social validity measures were assessed for both teachers and students who found the intervention to be acceptable in terms of effectiveness and utility. This study suggests the benefits of implementing tootling in a high school setting, demonstrating increases in classwide academically engaged behaviors and decreases in classwide disruptive and passive off task behaviors.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Wright, Sarah Joan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Daniel H. Tingstrom
• Brad A. Dufrene
• Evan H. Dart

• high school
• behavior intervention
• tootling
• public posting
• classroom intervention
• Educational Psychology
• School Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/255

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1280