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A PERFORMANCE‐BASED LOTTERY TO IMPROVE RESIDENTIAL CARE AND TRAINING BY INSTITUTIONAL STAFF
Author(s) -
Iwata Brian A.,
Bailey Jon S.,
Brown Katrina M.,
Foshee Terry J.,
Alpern Michael
Publication year - 1976
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.1976.9-417
Subject(s) - lottery , task (project management) , psychology , work (physics) , multiple baseline design , quality (philosophy) , training (meteorology) , scale (ratio) , nursing , baseline (sea) , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , operations management , engineering , statistics , mathematics , intervention (counseling) , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , oceanography , systems engineering , epistemology , quantum mechanics , geology , meteorology
Two experiments were conducted on four units of a residential facility for the multiply‐handicapped retarded in an attempt to improve daily care and training services. Experiment I compared the effects of two procedures in maintaining the work performance of attendants, using an A‐B design on two units. One procedure consisted of implementing specific staff‐resident assignments, the other consisted of allowing attendants who had met performance criteria to be eligible for a weekly lottery in which they could win the opportunity to rearrange their days off for the following week. Results showed that the lottery was a more effective procedure as measured by the per cent of time attendants engaged in predefined target behaviors, and by their frequency of task completion in several areas of resident care. Experiment II replicated and extended these results to the area of work quality on two additional units, using a multiple‐baseline design. The performance lottery was found to be an effective economical procedure that could be implemented by supervisory staff on a large scale.