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. 1974 Spring;7(1):103–114. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1974.7-103

Training elementary aged peer behavior managers to control small group programmed mathematics1

Charles R Greenwood 1,2,3, Howard N Sloane Jr 1,2,3, Arlene Baskin 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC1311654  PMID: 16795460

Abstract

The effects of a training procedure and two maintenance contingencies on consequence-dispensing behavior were investigated. Four peer behavior managers were trained to supervise small groups of subjects (four to six per group) working in programmed math materials and were compared with a teacher skilled in the use of social and point reinforcement and response cost. Manager training was differentially effective in accelerating manager's rates of appropriate social and point dispensing. Having manager reinforcement contingent upon manager consequence-dispensing resulted in moderately higher rates of appropriate social and point dispensing for three of four subjects than did having manager reinforcement contingent upon group study behavior. Two managers exposed to the group performance contingency before the manager performance contingency increased inappropriate social and point-dispensing behaviors to pretraining baseline levels. Subsequent change to the manager performance contingency was effective in reducing the inappropriate dispensing behavior of only one of the two managers.

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