Utilizing the Group in Teaching Disturbed Delinquents to Learn
- 1 December 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Exceptional Children
- Vol. 36 (4) , 267-272
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001440296903600407
Abstract
A group of disturbed, delinquent children were taught under 3 conditions. The group acted as its own control. Dependent variables were reading gains and appropriate classroom behaviors. Making rewards for all subjects contingent on each subject's behaving appropriately proved superior to giving rewards on a noncontingent basis. Giving group reinforcers for appropriate classroom behavior plus individual reinforcers for academic achievement proved to be the most efficacious. The group can be a powerful instrument in teaching disturbed delinquents.Keywords
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