Brief report: Compliance in the classroom: Using the „thumbs up”︁ procedure to increase student compliance to teacher requests | Zendy

Glass Margaret | Zendy; Houlihan Daniel | Zendy; Fatis Michael | Zendy; Levine Howard | Zendy

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Brief report: Compliance in the classroom: Using the „thumbs up”︁ procedure to increase student compliance to teacher requests

Author(s) -

Glass Margaret,

Houlihan Daniel,

Fatis Michael,

Levine Howard

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

behavioral interventions

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 1099-078X

pISSN - 1072-0847

DOI - 10.1002/bin.2360080406

Subject(s) - generalizability theory , compliance (psychology) , psychology , stimulus control , reinforcement , class (philosophy) , mathematics education , medical education , developmental psychology , social psychology , computer science , medicine , nicotine , neuroscience , artificial intelligence

This study assessed the effectiveness of a program designed to increase compliance with teacher commands in a regular 5th grade math class. A reversal design (A‐B‐B'‐A‐B') was employed. The teacher used a discriminative stimulus to signal the students as to the availability of an opportunity to earn a point towards a reinforcer. To receive the point the students were required to return the signal and initiate compliance. The entire class was involved in the program; however, data were recorded on two students, one identified by the teacher as noncompliant; the other served as a control. The results indicated that the program was effective in increasing initiation of compliance to teacher commands. However, serious questions were raised about the generalizability of such a program.

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