Training Children to Work Productively in Classroom Groups
- 1 March 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Exceptional Children
- Vol. 37 (7), 491-500
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001440297103700702
Abstract
The problem of grouping children in the classroom for the purpose of improving teaching has been traditionally approached by making groups homogeneous on the basis of age, intelligence test scores, achievement tests, or personality measures. Using an alternative approach, involving direct assessment of academic productivity and pretraining to work in groups, two studies are presented in this article. Experiment I showed that through the management of reinforcement contingencies a teacher could develop and maintain a high rate of academic productivity in a group of two boys with school adjustment problems. Experiment II, which applied similar techniques to a larger group, showed that high rates of work behavior could be maintained as the she of the group increased, and suggested that the proximity of the teacher may be related to the amount of study behavior generated.Keywords
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