Facilitating generalization of on-task behavior through self-monitoring of academic tasks.
This study (1) examined whether a self-monitoring procedure taught in a laboratory setting would increase independent on-task behavior there and would generalize without further teaching to a classroom setting, and (2) analyzed the durability of the training effects over the course of 5 months for one subject and 10 months for two other subjects. Two multiple-baseline designs, one across three normal and the other across three deviant children, showed that self-monitoring of academic task-completions facilitated on-task responding for all subjects in the generalization (classroom) setting. A subsequent reversal design showed that these effects were durable, in two of the three subjects still available, at least as much as 1 year after commencement of training. This latter design also suggested that one subject who was not maintained by self-monitoring could be supported in on-task behavior by a peer who was maintained by self-monitoring.
D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D012647:Self-Assessment