title: Attentional aspects of classroom behavior and discrimination learning.
abstract: Teachers' ratings of their mentally handicapped pupils' classroom behavior were examined as correlates of the child's performance on a discrimination learning task. Teachers completed the 23-item version of the Attention/Distraction Inhibition/Excitation Classroom Assessment Scale (ADIECAS) for a total of 77 pupils. Factors identified as attention/distractibility and responsivity to consequences correlated significantly with number of errors and number of trials to criterion during acquisition of a simultaneous visual discrimination. Attention/distractibility scores also correlated significantly with number of dimensions "attended to" during discrimination learning.
authors.affiliation: Education Department, Education Professional Centre, London, England.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Strand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012931:Social Environment