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. 1970 Summer;3(2):153–157. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1970.3-153

The experimental modification of teacher attending behavior1

Margaret L Cooper 1, Carolyn L Thomson 1, Donald M Baer 1,2
PMCID: PMC1311106  PMID: 16795248

Abstract

A method of observing and modifying teacher attention to appropriate child responses in preschool classrooms was developed. Two teachers with no formal training in reinforcement principles were observed for a baseline of eight days. Teacher A, who displayed a lower baseline rate of attending to appropriate child responses, was trained first. Teacher B was simply observed during the first part of the training condition for Teacher A. During training, A received feedback which included definitions of appropriate child responses, her frequency of attending to appropriate child responses, her total percentage of attending to appropriate child responses, and her frequency of failing to attend to appropriate child responses. Teacher B was then trained in a similar way. Both teachers showed an increase in attending to appropriate child responses subsequent to the onset of experimental feedback.

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