Teaching the Low-Performance College Student: An Inexpensive Behavioral Technology That Works.

Ray, Roger D.; Salomon, Michelle

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ERIC Number: EJ524808

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Publication Date: 1996

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Teaching the Low-Performance College Student: An Inexpensive Behavioral Technology That Works.

Ray, Roger D.; Salomon, Michelle

Educational Technology, v36 n3 p52-64 May-Jun 1996

Reports on a 10-year investigation of the use of behavioral contingency management technology to improve low-performance students' skills, which was conducted across 17 offerings of a sophomore-level undergraduate course. Findings indicate that behavioral contracting technologies involve very little cost and produce highly effective results. (AEF)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Computer Managed Instruction, Contingency Management, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Student Behavior, Student Improvement, Teaching Methods, Use Studies

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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