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TRAINING ELEMENTARY AGED PEER‐BEHAVIOR MANAGERS TO CONTROL SMALL GROUP PROGRAMMED MATHEMATICS 1
Author(s) -
Greenwood Charles R.,
Sloane Howard N.,
Baskin Arlene
Publication year - 1974
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.1974.7-103
Subject(s) - psychology , group (periodic table) , control (management) , training (meteorology) , peer group , mathematics education , applied psychology , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , meteorology
The effects of a training procedure and two maintenance contingencies on consequence‐dispensing behavior were investigated. Four peer behavior managers were trained to supervise small groups of subjects (four to six per group) working in programmed math materials and were compared with a teacher skilled in the use of social and point reinforcement and response cost. Manager training was differentially effective in accelerating manager's rates of appropriate social and point dispensing. Having manager reinforcement contingent upon manager consequence‐dispensing resulted in moderately higher rates of appropriate social and point dispensing for three of four subjects than did having manager reinforcement contingent upon group study behavior. Two managers exposed to the group performance contingency before the manager performance contingency increased inappropriate social and point‐dispensing behaviors to pretraining baseline levels. Subsequent change to the manager performance contingency was effective in reducing the inappropriate dispensing behavior of only one of the two managers.