AN ANALYSIS OF DAILY REPORT CARDS AND PARENT‐MANAGED PRIVILEGES IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF ADOLESCENTS' CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 10 (3) , 449-464
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1977.10-449
Abstract
A daily report-card system, involving home privileges administered by parents, was developed for use with “problem” junior-high students. In Experiment I, when home privileges and parent praise were contingent on improved school conduct, classwork, daily grades, and teacher satisfaction, the school performance of three students improved considerably. In Experiment II, a similar report-card system was employed with two additional students, except only parent praise was contingent on improved school performance. Under these conditions, one of the students did not bring the report card home, and class performance did not improve until contingent home privileges were added. The school performance of the second student improved with the card and praise alone. However, there appeared to be a slow decline of classwork performance over time. For Experiment III, an instructional manual, describing the report-card program, was written for school guidance counsellors. Two guidance counsellors read the program, used it with one student each, and found that the school performance of both students improved. These results suggest that the daily report-card program with home consequences administered by parents can improve the school performance of, and teacher satisfaction about, students having considerable difficulty in school.Keywords
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