Three studies were carried out to explore and evaluate alternative methods of meeting the objectives of a bilingual education project. The first study explored children's book usage behaviors and how these behaviors were influenced by the requirement to fill out book reports and a reward reinforcement. It was found (1) that fewer children sampled…

Intended to reduce the occurrence of inattending behaviors in 400 educable mentally handicapped students and to increase and maintain attending behaviors, project EDUCATE is described as an inservice program to teach behavior modification techniques to 16 special education teachers. EDUCOURSE I is said to have resulted from a review of research,…

Reported was a 3 week fluency shaping program in which 56 stutterers (aged 8 to 59 years) were each assisted by a single speech therapist through the following program stages: very slow speech; vowels; consonant initiated syllables; one, two, and three syllable words; short, self generated sentences; spontaneous speech; and transfer. Ss also…

The Corning Community College, having an open-door admissions policy, has been offering a course in achievement motivation for the past two years. The course, requiring about forty-five hours of participation, was started on an experimental basis with specially selected high-risk entering students during the summer of 1969. The main purposes of…

Presented are nine short papers concerning teacher role in effecting behavioral modification in the mentally handicapped student. The paper on functional analysis of behavior discusses use of reinforcers, changing reinforcer strength, reinforcement schedules, and discriminative stimuli. A continuation paper on functional analysis of behavior…

A determination of the optimal time needed for treatment of various types of third-grade remedial readers in the Broward County, Florida Reading Center Remedial Program was sought. As students were admitted into the program, they were given a pretest and randomly assigned to one of four groups. Each group received either 2, 3, 4, or 5 months of…

Fifty-four elementary school children who had been identified as consistently inattentive to classroom activities were involved in a four-week treatment program. Attention was assessed using a time-sampling observational instrument developed for the study, based upon a previously-developed technique. Subjects were assigned randomly to either an…

This study was concerned with the classroom adjustment of the nursery school child and the role of the teacher as a facilitator of change in adjustment. The first objective was to increase the value of the teacher's social responses of attention and approval in children who seemed to value these responses least, and the second objective was to…

This paper reviews earlier experiments in fostering creative expression in the writing of students at all educational levels, and presents an abstract of an experiment involving 81 students of educational psychology at Tennessee State University. Each wrote one essay per week, which was then rated for creativity on four scales (fluency,…

This manual describes the Turtle Technique which was developed to help children with behavior problems control their own disruptive behavior. The technique differs from other behavior modification techniques in that it is based upon self-control rather than external control of disruptive behavior. The Turtle Technique first teaches the child how…

Examined with 49 deaf-blind children (under 9 years old) was the use of the Telediagnostic Behavior Evaluation Protocol, a video-tape recorded evaluation protocol. To further develop the Telediagnostic Protocol and delineate the characteristics of the Ss observed during the process of test development, Ss were video-taped in eight 3-minute…

This book explores some of the basic principles of behavior which have been derived from the study of operant conditioning and considers the phenomenon of sport in society in the light of these principles. First, some of the terms used in Skinnerian behavioral analysis are defined and explained. The second section examines the reinforcements…

Described is a preschool program designed to provide early intervention in special education for severely handicapped children, which is noted to have been expanded to include children with severe behavioral disturbances and cognitive and developmental disabilities. The program is reported to serve nine children for 3 hours daily five days a week,…

The fears and anxieties of students in second language learning situations often prevent successful performance in the language. Three techniques from Behavior Modification can be applied to overcome such anxieties and to further achievement in second language learning: (1) Systematic Desensitization; (2) Cognitive Restructuring; and (3) Modeling…

A 53-subject treatment group and a 29-subject control group in a teacher trainee course were pretested for dogmatism, pupil control ideology, locus of control, and three factors of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. The treatment group was then exposed to an extensive classroom behavior modification laboratory. Results were not…