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Praising middle school students improves on-task behavior by up to 70%, BYU study finds

Research from BYU professor Paul Caldarella found that when teachers praise students more often than correcting them behavior improves dramatically. Students speaking out of turn, texting, telling ...
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Implementation of a Self-monitoring Application to Improve On-Task Behavior: A High-School Pilot Study

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 23, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2014), pp. 421-434 (14 pages) Technological innovations offer promise for improving intervention implementation in secondary, inclusive ...
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Improving Kindergarten and Grade One Indigenous Students' On-Task Behavior With the Use of Movement Integration

https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.58.1-2.0084 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jamerindieduc.58.1-2.0084 Copy URL The purpose of this study was to examine ...
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An Overview of Conducting a Functional Assessment of Challenging Behaviors

Operationally define challenging behaviors. Challenging behaviors should be defined in terms that are specific, observable, and measureable (i.e., one can see and count the behaviors). Be specific ...
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Study finds praising middle school students improves on-task behavior by up to 70%

The study found that when middle school teachers praised students at least as often as they reprimanded them, class-wide on-task behavior improved by 60–70%. Students speaking out of turn, texting, ...