TEACHER BEHAVIORS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCEMENT.

Autor/inn/en	BALDWIN, THELMA L.; JOHNSON, THOMAS J.
Institution	Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Research and Development Center for Learning and Re-Education.
Titel	TEACHER BEHAVIORS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCEMENT.
Quelle	(1966), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Behavior Patterns; Interviews; Motivation; Positive Reinforcement; Research and Development Centers; Responses; Rewards; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Evaluation; Teaching Methods; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Forschungszentrum; Reward; Belohnung; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	VARIATIONS IN THE PROPERTIES OF INSTRUCTIONAL REINFORCEMENT WERE STUDIED UNDER TWO ASPECTS OF TEACHER BEHAVIOR, PUNITIVENESS AND EXPERTISE, TO IDENTIFY TECHNIQUES FOR AFFECTING OPERANT RESPONSE RATE IN A VERBAL CONDITIONING SITUATION. PUNITIVENESS AND EXPERTISE WERE MANIPULATED BY USING PREARRANGED TAPE RECORDINGS OF A SIMULATED SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS. THESE RECORDINGS WERE PRESENTED TO 160 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GROUPS OF FIVE. TWO STUDENTS FROM EACH GROUP (MALE) THEN PARTICIPATED IN INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS WITH THE TEACHER WHOSE CLASS THEY HAD HEARD. SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT WAS VARIED DURING THE INTERVIEWS. POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT WAS USED IN 75 PERCENT OF THE INTERVIEWS WHERE THE TEACHER SMILED AND NODDED HIS HEAD WHEN STUDENTS MADE CERTAIN RESPONSES. IN THE REMAINING INTERVIEWS, THE TEACHER REMAINED NEUTRAL TO ALL STUDENT RESPONSES. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE ADMINISTERED AFTER BOTH THE SIMULATED CLASSROOM SESSIONS AND INTERVIEWS TO ELICIT SPECIFIED STUDENT REACTIONS. THE MAJOR FINDINGS INDICATED THAT NONPUNITIVE TEACHERS ELICITED A HIGHER OPERANT RATE UNDER THE REINFORCEMENT CONDITION AND THAT PUNITIVE TEACHERS ELICITED A HIGHER OPERANT RATE UNDER THE NEUTRAL CONDITION. EXPERTISE PRODUCED NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON THE OPERANT RATE. THE OPERANT RESPONSE RATE WAS SIMPLY THE NUMBER OF FIRST PERSON PRONOUNS EMITTED BY THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS DURING THEIR INTERVIEWS. (JH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC