Shaping academic task engagement with percentile schedules.

نویسندگان

  • Elizabeth S Athens
  • Timothy R Vollmer
  • Claire C St Peter Pipkin
چکیده

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of percentile schedules as a method of quantifying the shaping procedure in an educational setting. We compared duration of task engagement during baseline measurements for 4 students to duration of task engagement during a percentile schedule. As a secondary purpose, we examined the influence on shaping of manipulations of the number of observations used to determine the criterion for reinforcement (the m parameter of the percentile formula). Results showed that the percentile formula was most effective when a relatively large m value (20 observations) was used.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of applied behavior analysis

دوره 40 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007