Negative Reinforcement in Classrooms: What We're Beginning To Learn.

Gunter, Phillip L.; Coutinho, Martha J.

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ERIC Number: EJ581742

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Negative Reinforcement in Classrooms: What We're Beginning To Learn.

Gunter, Phillip L.; Coutinho, Martha J.

Teacher Education and Special Education, v20 n3 p249-64 Sum 1997

Presents the negative-reinforcement paradigm as a framework with potential to guide development of interventions that increase desirable and decrease undesirable behaviors of students with disabilities. Studies involving children with emotional and behavioral disorders are presented to convey the importance of teachers' awareness of the paradigm's usefulness. (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Intervention, Negative Reinforcement, Teacher Student Relationship

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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