Changing What Teachers Say Changes What They Do: Increasing Their Specific Praise of Student Behavior

Abstract

By differentially reinforcing questionnaire statements that favored teachers' behaviorspecific praise in a multiple-baseline design across participants, we altered the verbal behavior of general education teachers. Our target was a written verbalization favoring the delivery of specific rather than general praise. We then assessed the effects on their spoken interactions with their students. The teachers' specific praise of student behavior increased while reprimands decreased or remained stable. These effects continued after the differential reinforcement procedure was discontinued. The differential reinforcement of verbal behavior is an alternative strategy for adding desired behavior to the repertoires of teachers; it may be more effective than giving instructions about the behavior or directly targeting the behavior itself with differential reinforcement.

Pengenalan Kosakata Sederhana pada Siswa TK Islam Bhakti 02 Semarang untuk Menumbuhkan Motivasi Belajar Bahasa Inggris Pasca Covid-19

“…Itulah yang disebut learning by doing atas dasar pada teori bahwa belajar bahasa adalah habit formation di samping teori psikologi perilaku (behavioral psychology) dalam stimulusresponse theory (Kumara, 2017). Supaya menjadi satu kesatuan, untuk role-play ini, dilatih juga menggunakan No, thank you, untuk menolak halus pemberian tertentu (Beckoff & Bender, 1989;Neef et al, 2022).…”