To assess the effects of verbal reprimands on students' errors in daily class exercises, seven 15- to 17-year-olds in a Spanish II level class were required to respond verbally to fill-in-the-blank exercises covering Spanish grammar. An ABA design evaluated the effects of the teacher's reprimands for each incorrect response. During baseline there…

This action research project implemented and evaluated an intervention for increasing student academic and social responsibility. The targeted population consisted of kindergarten, 1st, and 5th grade students in a growing middle-class community in central Illinois. The problems of irresponsible academic and social behavior were documented through…