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A Challenge to Group-Oriented Teaching: Typical Responses to Typical Rewards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

C. F. Sharpley  and
J. W. Irvine
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Abstract

Although operant techniques have been successfully used to modify the classroom behaviours of children, some recent suggestions for the implementation of specialist educational interventions have emphasized the need to individualize instruction which utilizes such methods. The present study shows evidence of individual variations within marked group effects in an operant situation. The presence of such variations to responses which are modified by powerful reinforcers suggests that recent trends in special education towards mainstreaming need to take individual characteristics of subject-behaviours into careful consideration when implementing policies in the normal classroom.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , November 1979 , pp. 15 - 18
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1979

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