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SWITCHING REQUIREMENTS IN A HEAD START CLASSROOM 1
Author(s) -
Jacobson Joan M.,
Bushell Don,
Risley Todd
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1969.2-43
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , head start , head (geology) , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , medicine , management , geomorphology , economics , geology
Two experiments were conducted by the mothers of the children in a Head Start classroom. Both examined the effects of a switching task on the frequency with which children moved from one activity area of the classroom to another. The results indicated that the rate at which the children changed activities could be adjusted by varying the difficulty or magnitude of the switching task and that the task itself could be used to introduce academic subjects which would be poorly attended if initially presented in an activity area.